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“There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse me...”
“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it. ”
“The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
“I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. ...”
“It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.”
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You feel that their power over you gives you a sensation of pleas...”
“He read the words, wondering when cruelty won the vote from democracy.”
“There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.”
“He was a sceptic, he was young, abstract, and therefore cruel.”
“It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
“They're making me go to school," Pram said. "I don't think it's a very good idea. I've read about how cruel kids can be.""Are you afraid they'll be cruel, or that being around them for too long wil...”
“The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.”
“I never, even for a moment, doubted what theyd told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubts complete absence. They have forgotten.”
“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didnt really hurt.”
“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
“My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.”
“Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.”
“No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
“There is no honor in cruelty.”
“Don't kill me,' said the knight. 'I yield. I yield. You can't kill a man at mercy.'Lancelot put up his sword and went back from the knight, as if he were going back from his own soul. He felt in hi...”
