Cruel Quotes

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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is. — Antonio Banderas
China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot
Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law. — Brigitte Bardot
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in… — Joseph Addison
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great… — Renata Adler
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. — Renata Adler
I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be… — Bjork
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty… — Benjamin Britten
Terror made me cruel. — Emily Bronte
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. — Edmund Burke
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. — Leo Buscaglia
We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and… — Robert Byrd
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly? — Lord Byron
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. — Taylor Caldwell
I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me. — Benjamin Carson
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. — John Cleese
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little. — William J. Clinton
Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! — Leonard Cohen

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