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It's much easier to be cruel than one might think. — Jonathan Safran Foer

The only morality in a cruel world is chance. — Aaron Eckhart

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy. — Bertrand Russell

Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it. — John N. Gray

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings. — Danielle Steel

We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high. — Michelle Obama

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

Stolen hours in a decrepit barn with Isaac Hale didn't count; those times were hungry and empty and sometimes cruel, but never lovely. — Sarah J. Maas

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one. — Mildred D. Taylor

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

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. — J.K. Rowling

Oh, youth is a wicked, cruel thing - eating miracles with its breakfast and not knowing they are not porridge. — Elizabeth Bibesco

It was a knife of an idea, a cruel instrument of sacrifice, but also one of great beauty, silvery, curved, dancing with light. — Peter Carey

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

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world. — Juvenal

He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. — Friedrich Nietzsche

How can God be so cruel to grow love in such hopeless places? — Fiona Paul

Not a cruel cold, more like wounded, like a warning to stay away; a broken cold. — B.N. Toler

Strange things happened to them ... some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that faith is refired forever. — John Steinbeck

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection. — Rex Reed

This world is unforgiving and cruel to those it judges as even the slightest bit outside the norm. — Seanan McGuire

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

Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. — William Ralph Inge

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward. — Arlen Specter

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. — Aaron Eckhart

We are only bits of protein in a cruel universe of silica and fire. — Tadeusz Konwicki

We speak of love when we destroy nature.
It sounds like innocence of cruel arrogance. — Toba Beta

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos De Laclos

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

So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie... — Deyth Banger

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls. — Rosita Forbes

It is a cruel fact, child. Wisdom comes after the moment when it is most needed. — Jeff Wheeler

Self-criticism, cruel, unsparing criticism that goes to the very root of the evil, is life and breath for the proletarian movement. — Rosa Luxemburg

Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. — Nancy Mitford

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. — Winston Churchill

Evil is cruel;
folly is deceptive;
together they are destruction. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel. — Jack London

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

I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight. — Laurell K. Hamilton

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

You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you. — Amanda Stephan

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

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy. — Voltaire

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made. — Jerry Lee Lewis

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. — Russell Brand

Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. — John Quincy Adams

I'm not being cruel when I am saying 'no'. — Melody Devonish

Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave. — Patricia Moyes

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

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel
merely terribly, terribly good at his job. — Terry Pratchett

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

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

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life? — Sandra Chami Kassis

Isn't it strange that sometimes the memory of an act of kindness can cause more pain than the cruel stuff? — Marian Keyes

Hope could be a cruel bitch — Julia London

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past. — Alice Hoffman

I must be cruel only to be kind — William Shakespeare

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. — Danny DeVito

What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God. — W. Somerset Maugham

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way. — Kate Morton

Whatever is a cruel wrong, Whatever is unjust, The honest years that speed along Will trample in the dust ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is capricious and cruel and totally fucking random and there is no hope of finding meaning in a nightmare. — Hugh Howey

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

But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport? — Shintaro Ishihara

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. — Terence Young

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

Nothing cruel is in fact beneficial; for cruelty is extremely hostile to the nature of man, which we ought to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some kids also think it makes them cool
When they pick on other kids, being cruel. — Christina Engela

But love isn't always roses and rainbows and butterflies in your stomach. It's equally cruel and painful and the world's worst villain. — J.A. Redmerski

Careful, boy," rumbled Gwyn. "You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel. — Cassandra Clare

I have learned that Nature can be cruel, but I can be crueler! — Ren Hoek

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end? — Johnny Rich

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection ... — Barbara Mertz

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

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps. — Norman Thomas

Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it. — John Knight

Life is cruel. Love is a joke. And not even death is final. — Corinne Michaels

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. — Daymond John

I'm a mean, cruel person who doesn't deserve love. — Sherry Gammon

And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves? — Jean Racine

Like trapped animals struggling to break free. What a curse was sickness in old age. This damned Parkinson's, cruel as torture. — Rohinton Mistry

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

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change. — Howard Jacobson

As we speak, cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow. — Horace

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Don't be so cruel to me. Don't promise me anything. I've got everything that i need. I need love in a good way. — Tegan Quin

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner. — Claudio Magris

But without wisdom, imagination is a cruel taskmaster. — William Paul Young

A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying. — Zachary Quinto

Each year, the The U.S. Army & its contractors SHOOT, STAB, MUTILATE, & KILL more than TEN THOUSAND live animals in cruel training exercises. — Oliver Stone

He would be cruel indeed, to put a passion in her, and then to punish her for feeling it. — Sarah Waters

For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses. — John Nardizzi

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love. — L.J.Smith

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

How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope. — Pierce Brown

Cruel is the strife of brothers. — Aristotle.

Why did Thor send you back to middle school?" I asked. "That seems especially cruel." She — Rick Riordan

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

If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women. — Peter Zumthor