#cruel

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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

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon." [From the author's concluding Historical Note]


C.J. Sansom


#armageddon #book-of-revelation #cruelty #destruction #fundamentalism

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?


Joseph Addison


#cruel #delights #father #make #man

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.


Isaac Asimov


#call #cruelty #deliberate #greater #him

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.


Lewis J. Bates


#cold #cruel #deed #judged #judgment

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.


Mason Cooley


#fear #pity #softened

When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.


Claire Bloom


#british #british press #child #cruel #doing

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.


Linda Chavez


#allowed #basic #basic human rights #blacks #cruelty

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.


John Gay


#cowards #cruel #delight #love #mercy