#cruel

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

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

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#over #reform #sooner #trying #use

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

#cruel #ends #germany #how #italy

The bottom of the sea is cruel. ↗

— Hart Crane

#cruel #sea

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#cruelty #cultural #human #might #very

I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#i #i think #men #tender #think

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#cruelty #everybody #i #interfere #now

In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts of cruelty against one another. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#against #another #committed #cruelty #men

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#attended #cruelty #fear #tyrant

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. ↗

— King Solomon

#destroyed #kind #nourished #own #soul