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“Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fell...”
“The only thing crueler than a cage sosmall that a bird cant fly is a cage solarge that a bird thinks it can fly.”
“To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we b...”
“Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”
“Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.”
“There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...”
“You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.”
“Dont fool yourself: we all have a cruel streak. We keep it under lock and key either because were afraid of getting punished or because we believe this will somehow make a difference, make the worl...”
“Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?”
“Its cruelty that gets to me. Still, its important to read about cruelty.Why is it important? Because when you read about it, its easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refuge...”
“I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who would wound me.”
“I close my eyes, knowing that afterward we will fall asleep together on our small mattress, as we do every night, listening to the wind in the palm trees outside our window, believing in our thick ...”
“Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.”
“Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”
“It is not linen you're wearing out But human creatures' lives.”
“I must be cruel only to be kind.”
“War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle.”
“I am not cruel —only truthful.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was p...”
