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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

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy. — William Shakespeare

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

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

Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Terror made me cruel . . . — Emily Bronte

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cruel is the strife of brothers. — Aristotle.

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

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

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

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