#cruel

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The human spirit glows from that small inner light of doubt whether we are right, while those who believe with certainty that they possess the right are dark inside and darken the world outside with cruelty, pain, and injustice.


Saul D. Alinsky


#doubt #cruelty

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.


Friedrich Nietzsche


#suffering #cruelty

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.


Kate DiCamillo


#despereaux #light #violence #cruelty

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?


Bertrand Russell


#palestine #cruelty

It is said that the greatest cruelty is drawn from those with the kindest hearts.


Terry Goodkind


#cruelty

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy." [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience]


George Bernard Shaw


#fighting #foreign-policy #literature #narrow-mindedness #prejudice

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.


Tammy Baldwin


#cruel #dictator #hard #his #look

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.


Joseph Addison


#aggravating #another #calamity #common #condition

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.


Madeleine Albright


#called #cruel #harder #home #i

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.


Ted Allen


#affection #always #chefs #chopped #cruelty