#crue

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ↗

— Bette Midler

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#bankruptcy #cruel #due #family #government

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. ↗

— Kelly Miller

#amid #been #conflicting #course #cruelty

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. ↗

— Kate Millett

#committed #cruelty #execution #first #lost

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#confirmed #cruel #destructive #forces #grandiose

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ↗

— Ouida

#every #hand #oils #run #runs