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People are cruel. They like to kill. It's the war that has taught them that. And there are explosives lying around everywhere — Agota Kristof

Laws can be wrong and laws can be cruel. And the people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel. — Ardel Wray

Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it. — Rick Astley

Fear makes people do cruel things, things they'll be ashamed of later — Christie Golden

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember. — Terry Pratchett

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them. — Sanhita Baruah

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

It's not that people are mean or cruel, they're just busy. — Austin Kleon

It's not the world that's cruel," Neil said. "It's the people in it. — Nora Sakavic

That really hurt me- I tried to help those children but people just wanted to make fun of me.It was cruel and unnecessary. — Michael J. Jackson

He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause. — Terry Pratchett

I can't stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad. — Roger Ailes

I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals. — Gary Larson

A lot of people think my sarcasm comes from insecurity and defensiveness, but I assure you I'm just being petty and cruel. — Dana Gould

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency. — Jonathan Swift

It is always cruel to laugh at people, of course, although sometimes if they are wearing an ugly hat it is hard to control yourself. — Lemony Snicket

Money is a cruel thing. It's the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love. — Rainbow Rowell

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. — Renata Adler

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world. — Rita Mae Brown

Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them? — Julie Anne Peters

I don't like rats any more than the next bloke, but they ain't wicked and cruel like people can be. They're just ratty in their habits. — Philip Pullman

How people are often merciless
on those they love the most — Maggie Nelson

Life had since become fast and cruel and unreflective, and people were too busy counting their gains to bother about the idols of their youth. — Ruskin Bond

Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. — Jennifer Chiaverini

But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. — Will Schwalbe

Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths — Ben Oliveira

Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood. — Cassandra Clare

The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. — Laura Kreitzer

It is because people live in the things they possess instead of in their relationship to God that God seems at times to be cruel. — Grace Livingston Hill

If you tolerate cruel people,
you tolerate evil people.
If you persecute kind people,
you persecute righteous people. — Matshona Dhliwayo

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. — Grant Morrison

Man is the only predator who hunts his own. — Kenneth Eade

The ancient Greeks who created the magnificent sculptures and structures were the same people who could be utterly cruel and barbaric. — Julia Vickers

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. — Elton John

I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. — Nancy Sinatra

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered. — Napoleon Bonaparte

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness. — Ann Patchett

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ... — John Geddes

People can be so cruel to the different. — Lesley Kagen

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. — Kenneth Branagh

If you have only been around people who use power in cruel and petty ways, then when you hear the very word, you may have a negative reaction. — Frederick Lenz

Perhaps your way of keeping yourself t yourself was cruel to the people who wanted you to show them your insides. — L. H. Cosway

It's a cruel reality. But after a week, very few people survive. — Jan Egeland

It was not the sea that was cruel, but the people — Charlotte Rogan

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it. — Darlene Cates

People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. — Federico Chini

It was a sort of love few other people could understand. It was total and it was overwhelming and it could be cruel. — Cassandra Clare

The cruel irony of housework:
people only notice when you don't do it. — Danielle Raine

Don't build walls and shut people out of your life. To act as if another does not exist is a mean and cruel weapon — Joyce Meyer

Lovers. Not a soft word, as people thought, but cruel and tearing. — Alice Munro

The most cruel and disobedient people will be saved, if there is one who would stand before God for His people — Sunday Adelaja

People are more than silly," the spinner's voice is suddenly dark, "they're cruel. — Tabi Card

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others. — Sujata Massey

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world. — Aml Ameen

Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough. — Jose Saramago

You ought to try being cruel to some people. — Mike Judge

But, I didn't have a clue what it was really like, how terribly cruel and mean and judgmental people could be — Siobhan Vivian

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. — Tammy Baldwin

Don't lead people on. It's cruel. — Leah Raeder

People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans

Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. — W. Somerset Maugham

China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals. — Brigitte Bardot

People, by and large, weren't cruel, weren't heartless; it was simply that they couldn't believe anything could happen — Elisabeth Sanxay Holding

It's not the world that's cruel. It's the people in it. — Nora Sakavic

Nature is cruel and pitiless, so are successful states and people — Bangambiki Habyarimana

It is a cruel task, to frighten people in God's name. — Katherine Arden

Love makes people do cruel things — Kate Morton

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. — Tennessee Williams

When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest. — Shannon L. Alder

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable. — Augusten Burroughs

It seems to me that a fair number of people are happy to be as cruel as their power allows, — Kristin Cashore

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer. — Herbert Hoover