"The secret of poetry is cruelty." — Jon Anderson

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• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
• If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids… — Margaret Atwood
• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
• What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they… — William Blake
• Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. — Elizabeth Bowen
• The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have… — George W. Bush
• The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they… — George W. Bush
• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion,… — Samuel Butler
• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty. — Samuel Butler
• Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There's a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls… — George Clooney

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