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The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from… — Kurt Vonnegut
The terrible, cold, cruel part is Wall Street. Rivers of gold flow there from all over the earth, and death comes with it. There, as… — Federico Garcia Lorca
My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well. — Unknown Author
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men;… — Thomas Carlyle
I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once… — Paul Robeson
While other faiths are also often oppressive, sharia law is especially oppressive. Its interpretations stipulate the execution of Muslims who commit adultery, renounce their faith… — Peter Tatchell
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. — Solomon
An angry father is most cruel towards himself. — Publilius Syrus
The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them. — Muhammad
Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant… — Unknown Author
Reality is cruel. All of the naivete is going to be removed. Reality is always changing, and it is always unpredictable. All of the balance… — Hideki Yukawa
There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. — Herbert Hoover
War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is… — John McCain
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The harm that theology has done is not to create cruel impulses, but to give them the sanction of what professes to be lofty ethic,… — Bertrand Russell
It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive. — Jan Egeland
First there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality. — Jan Egeland
Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic… — Joe Klein
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. — Seneca the Younger
For too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality. — Unknown Author
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. — Anne Rice
For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the… — Frederick Douglass
How cruel my suffering is,—no one is more talkative than I am! — Georges Bataille

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