“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts. — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more substantial to place against the cruelty of the world than language.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to… — John McCain Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
Life is kind and generous to those who respect its principles and rules, but it is hard and cruel with those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.” — Sujata Massey Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business,… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
“I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I… — Alison Larkin Copy Share Image
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
“Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They're emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention. Because of… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The thing that got me about the Orphan Trains was that the experiences were so varied. Some of the kids went from… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not… — Matthew Scully Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we?… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
I believe these stories exist because we sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point. — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
“It is that truth sometimes feels like cruelty to hear, makes it no less the truth.” — Gillian Duce Copy Share Image
Cruelty is the luxury of those who have nothing to do, like drugs or racing stables. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
