#crue

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#belief #cruel #god #makes #man

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#cruelty #crushed #darkness #even #grave

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#cemetery #century #cruelty #extended #human

Aristocracy is always cruel. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#aristocracy #cruel

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#course #creatures #cruel #extraordinarily #little

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#any #certain #cost #cruel #elderly

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cruel #even #kindest #love #women

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#between #choice #conflicts #confront #costly