195 quotes found
“He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.”
“He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, th...”
“None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He was an old lion, prepared from birth to lose his life rather than to leave it. But he had the dignity of all fr...”
“Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.”
“Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity.”
“I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.”
“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
“Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,Though you are the sister of the river willows,I will kill you with my singing,Without spilling your blood on the ground.Not touching you with ...”
“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, o...”
“There are always two people involved in cruelty, aren't there? One to be vicious and someone to suffer! And what's the use of getting rid of - of wickedness, say - in the outside world if you let i...”
“Sentimentalist is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isnt.”
“It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, w...”
“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
“Sometimes it's a revelation, even to me, how much more comfortable I am with cruelty than with kindness.”
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”
“I wish something would happen to me, something that would show me exactly how cruel and jealous and vengeful I can be. Then I could go back to gentleness because I chose it over brutality for its o...”
“I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.”
“[Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage o...”
“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois”
