#cruel

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ? ↗

— Anne Rice

#shame #cruelty

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#bitter #cold #cruelty #fruit #love

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#business #cruel #family #get #hollywood

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#clumsy #cruel #devil #horribly #low

The terrorist attacks upon our country changed the way that we live forever and provided us with a cruel reminder that freedom and liberty have a price. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#changed #country #cruel #forever #freedom

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity. ↗

— George Eliot

#every #itself #like #motive #only

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#laugh #weep #life

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #nonviolent #vegan #life

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression. ↗

— Albert Camus

#oppression #dreams

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#cruelty #goodness #character