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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means,… — George Bernard Shaw
This Cruel Age has deflected me... — Anna Akhmatova
The hopes of Europe's six million Jews are centered on emigration. I was asked, 'Can you bring six million Jews to Palestine?' I replied, 'No'....From… — Chaim Weizmann
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to… — Tom Clancy
Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. — Albert Camus
Houston is a cruel, crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence.… — Hunter S. Thompson
Certainty is a cruel mindset. — Ellen Langer
Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we… — Benjamin B. Ferencz
England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their… — Colin MacInnes
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty. — Baron d'Holbach
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is… — Fanny Burney
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings… — John Rawls
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. — Barbara Pym
The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood
Slave power crushes freedom of speech and of opinion. Slave power degrades labor. Slave power is arrogant, is jealous and intrusive, is cruel, is despotic,… — Unknown Author
I once bought a Manchester United hat, which I think was 12 shillings, and somebody ran up behind me and pulled it off and just… — Steven Morrissey
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than… — Tom Robbins
Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be… — John M. Geddes
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. — Samuel Eliot Morison
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever… — Arthur Koestler
I always thought death was cruel, a silent destroyer of breath, of hope, of life. Now I understand it is physical death, the perception of… — Stefanie Schneider
When people impute special vices to the Christian Church, they seem entirely to forget that the world (which is the only other thing there is)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world… — Ford Madox Ford
You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes… — Theda Bara
Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it… — Molly Ivins

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