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

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. — Ouida

There really were no chains like the ones in your head. — K.J. Charles

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee

Men are cruel, but Man is kind. — Rabindranath Tagore

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another. — Brom

Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. — Colette McBeth

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations — Rupi Kaur

Cruel to be kind means that I love you. — Nick Lowe

If there be a fate that is sometimes cruel to me, there surely is a kind and merciful Providence which watches over me. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. — Melina Marchetta

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go! — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

While nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel. — J. E. Buckrose

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

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. — King Solomon

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. — Richard Dawkins

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly — Ernest Hemingway,

Parties are a cruel kind of fun. — Caryl Churchill

One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. — Morarji Desai

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

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind. — Mason Cooley

You gotta be cruel to be kind. — William Shakespeare

I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things. — Debasish Mridha

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind. — Meher Baba

A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely. — Jane Lotter

Those that were kind would never understand those that were cruel, and the cruel ones could never really respect kindness. — Sarah Pinborough

If you can't be liked being kind, then be hated being cruel. — Joshua Teya

Choosing to be kind rather than to be cruel benefits everyone. — Sharon Gannon

I must be cruel only to be kind — William Shakespeare

He who is not actively kind is cruel! — John Ruskin

Who tolerates, which is intolerable; who is kind, which is cruel; who understands, which is beyond comprehension ... — Edward Albee

How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel. — Louise Penny

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence. — James Purdy

Love and hate are cruel, only liking is kind — Colleen McCullough

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me. — Jason Sellards

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind — Munia Khan

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done — Rosamund Hodge

Choosing between your kind and another species wasn't cruel. It was necessary. — Rick Yancey

Nature is being kind without knowing it, as nature can be cruel without knowing it. — Sherwin B. Nuland

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving. — Alicia Keys

I love you," he said. "I love you more than any other creature, because you are cruel, and kind, and alive. Nyx Triskelion, will you be my wife? — Rosamund Hodge

words can be kind, words can be cruel words are not just words, they can change you a lot for real — Himanshu Arora

It is much easier to be kind than cruel. — Debasish Mridha

Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed."
~ A thought by Lessa ~ — Anne McCaffrey