Cruelty Quote by Steven Erikson

“Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are a soldier.”…

— Steven Erikson

“Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cackling demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts…

— Joe Abercrombie

“Violence and resistance are the only answer. Empire has to feel pain or it will never stop devouring you. It is only when a…

— Rawi Hage

“He advises them that tough lands produce tough peoples, so, if they wish to retain the empire he has enabled them so spectacularly to…

— Herodotus

“Atrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation.”

— John Updike

“I don’t know what sort of savagery your ‘barbarian’ people instilled, but christening yourself war-like seems the height of narcissistic delusion. Let me enlighten…

— Clayton Kinnelon Greiman

“It is only when you understand the extent to which you have been traumatized—even if outside of your awareness—that you can effectively prepare for…

— Carolyn Baker

“It’s a tough universe kid.  Dirty.  Vicious.  What the Empire doesn’t screw up directly the rest of us screw up in fear of, or…

— Simon Goodson

You must learn that to endure cruelty is to become cruel yourself

— Bleach

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous that this miserable and wretched creature, who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to…

— Michel de Montaigne

“As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce…

— George R. Stewart

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

— Hosea Ballou