Cruelty Quote by Joseph O'Connor Download Open image “Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.” — Joseph O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cruelty Done Freedom Love Love and freedom Names
Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Freedom and dignity are not scraps to be doled out by cruel masters. They belong to every man, woman, and child. They are our… — Steven dos Santos Copy Share Image
I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love. — Vicki Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ah, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. — Anacreon Copy Share Image
..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.” — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.” — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“And if ever you wanted to quit your impatient girl truly, and our little story had to be stored away in a room that's… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all. — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said. — Pete Waterman Copy Share Image
He lacked tenderness; he was rude; and he had more than a streak of cruelty in him; he was a thief and a liar.… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Regarding lack of vision or disabilities of the organ of sight, it has long been known among researchers that it is the effect of… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
“When you’re a monster, she thought, you are thanked and praised for not behaving like a monster. She would like to restrain from cruelty… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing...… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image