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No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.


Josiah Royce


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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.


Bertrand Russell


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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.


Bertrand Russell


#cruelty #delight #good #hell #infliction

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid.


Richard Russo


#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.


George Santayana


#free #loved #makes #those #truth

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.


George Saunders


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I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty.


Dan Savage


#cruelty #each #friends #go #i

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.


Alexei Sayle


#humour #i #i think #ideas #kind

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.


Maurice Sendak


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My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.


Anna Sewell


#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves






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