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Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. — Morris Raphael Cohen
Weak thoughts and feelings often feel strong but remember, real strength is never anxious, cruel, or punishing. — Guy Finley
Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too — Alexander Cockburn
O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! — Friedrich Nietzsche
To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is… — Stephen Reinhardt
We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. — Rabindranath Tagore
Flesh eating is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to moral feeling: By killing, man suppresses in himself,… — Leo Tolstoy
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have… — Samuel Johnson
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us.… — Pat Summitt
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different? I offer you a choice. Join my crew...and postpone the judgment. One hundred years before… — Davy Jones
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different! — Davy Jones
How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same… — James Clavell
But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if… — Chad Harbach
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats. — William Penn
When in the wondrous realms above Our Saviour had been called upon, To save our world of sin by love, He said, "Thy will, O… — Unknown Author
It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years,… — Tina Weymouth
It appears to be uncertain whether the journey of Mary with her husband was obligatory or voluntary. . . . Women were liable to a… — Frederic Farrar
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. — Kenneth Branagh
Guide dogs for the blind. It's cruel really, isn't it? Getting a dog to lead a man round all day. Not fair on either of… — Steve Coogan
Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — William Ralph Inge
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris
Freedom without the strength to support it and, if need be, defend it, would be a cruel delusion. And the strength to defend freedom can… — Jamsetji Tata
Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you… — Oriana Fallaci
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart

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