#cruel

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

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Farewell, fair cruelty. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

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If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq. ↗

— Clare Short

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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. ↗

— Nancy Sinatra

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We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world. ↗

— Juliet Stevenson

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