#cruel

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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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

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Ouida

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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. ↗

— Ovid

#character #cruel #faithful #liberal #liberal arts

Kids are really cruel. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#kids #really

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

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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

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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

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