195 quotes found
“In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.”
“Cruelty is not something you can just sugar coat with a smile, with laughter, with a hug or with an act of kindness. It is a diabolical behaviour that will keep popping up behind that smile, behind...”
“...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt”
“Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.”
“It's the worst kind of cruelty the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.”
“When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead or any other "mis" to others, theyre obviously missing something from their lives.”
“There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesnt guard against it, risks being swept away by it.”
“Happiness is a beautiful fruit that tastes of cruelty.”
“Before, they had been beasts, their instincts fitly adapted to their surroundings, and happy as living things may be. Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died,...”
“My mother always says that indifference is the greatest cruelty.”
“Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull”
“In knowing "what's best" for our patients, we tyrannize them with our good intentions. Behind our benevolent persona, our ruthless shadow is letting out the clutch.”
“And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.”
“But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'dHis glassy essencelike an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels we...”
“Silence! Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.The historian faced him. I am.You are a soldier.As you say.I do, and so you shall die with these soldiers, in ...”
“There is no redemption in a cruel man's love.”
“I know about sureness,' said Didactylos. 'I remember, before I was blind, I went to Omnia once. And in your Citadel I saw a crowd stoning a man to death in a pit. Ever seen that?''It has to be done...”
“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.”
“in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...”
“People talk sometimes of 'bestial' cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beast; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically, so artfully cruel.”
