Best Cruelties Quotes
49 Cruelties quotes by 41 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
— Marcel Proust
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
— John Steinbeck
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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