Belief Quote by David Foster Wallace

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

— Antonin Scalia

The question we should be asking is not why people are sometimes cruel, or even why a few people are usually cruel (all evidence…

— David Graeber

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified…

— Anonymous

The world can be very cruel.

— Virgil van Dijk

I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.

— Vicki Lawrence

I don't like how cruel humans can be.

— Patrisse Cullors

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

— Maya Angelou

I do not see why man should not be as cruel as nature

— Adolf Hitler

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

— Adolf Hitler

It's a cruel world, don't you think?

— Cornelia Funke

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

— Nellie McKay

The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry grants to rare events…

— Stephen Jay Gould