195 quotes found
“I was helpless in trying to return people's kindness, but also helpless to resist it. Kindness is a scarier force than cruelty, that's for sure. Cruelty isn't that hard to understand. I had no trou...”
“Did you really cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?”
“I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
“I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done”
“Its much easier to be cruel than one might think.”
“Sweet mother Mary, boy, think about what youre doing! Be cruel or be kind, but dont be both, because now youve made a mess you cant clean up in a hurry.”
“And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy...”
“Lack of courage leads to cruelty.”
“Actually, the Sniper's sense of humor frightened Amy more than anything else. The parody of Carla's poem had been witty, the rudeness of Marvy's critique outlandish, and she was still, for some rea...”
“If there is a deity of the kind imagined by votaries of the big mail-order religions such as Christianity and Islam, and if this deity is the creator of all things, then it is responsible for cance...”
“Man is the cruelest animal," says Zarathustra. "When gazing at tragedies, bull-fights, crucifixations he hath hitherto felt happier than at any other time on Earth. And when he invented Hell...lo, ...”
“...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing si...”
“The influence of the iniquitous system necessarily fosters an unfeeling and cruel spirit, even in the bosoms of those who, among their equals, are regarded as humane and generous.”
“She dared to cry? On this day of all days? I was the one who would be married at sunset, and I hadn't let myself cry in five years. There was ice in my lungs and in my heart. I was floating. I was ...”
“A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case u...”
“You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape the great face...”
“The reality is that in many countries torture of the most revolting cruelty happens routinely, often under the auspices of governments with good relations with Europe and the United States, sometim...”
“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.”
“Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.”
“There is a certain beauty in our intrinsic human cruelty.”
