#cruel

The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

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There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you, But with your unimaginable groans I will finally slake my thirst. From her, who wandered the earth before me, Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame, From her, who still exists in the ether— From her you will set me free. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#unrequited-love #beauty

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

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Terror made me cruel. ↗

— Emily Bronte

#made #me #terror

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

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Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. ↗

— Robert Byrd

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