Best Cruelties Quotes

49 Cruelties quotes by 41 unique authors

These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace… — P. M. Forni
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been… — C.S. Lewis
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. — Marcel Proust
I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system.… — Howard Zinn
All I have left is my anger at the foolishness of the world. The unnecessary cruelties, the pomposity and vanity of people who should know… — Stephen Hunt
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great… — Harold B. Lee
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. — John Steinbeck
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are… — Robertson Davies
This is what I do know: A lie, however well-intended, can't prepare you for reality or change the world... To tell the truth is to… — Mira Grant
It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. — Susan Cain
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in… — C.S. Lewis
The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other… — Susan Cain
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far… — Mark Twain
The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing… — Thomas Paine
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts… — Hermann Hesse
About the greatest virtue a friend can have, is to be able to hold her tongue; and through this, like all virtues carried to extremity,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors… — Carl Sagan
Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance,… — Steven Pinker

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