#cruelty

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Farewell, fair cruelty.


William Shakespeare


#fair #farewell

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.


Dinah Sheridan


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Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.


Juliet Stevenson


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It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.


Lionel Trilling


#condition #consent #contemplation #cruel #cruelty

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ...


James Hurst


#hurst #ibis #james #knot #love

Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.


Thomas Hardy


#cruelty #love #loved #sexes #unrequited

Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered, 'That wasn't why they destroyed the warren. It was just because we were in their way. They killed us to suit themselves.


Richard Adams


#evil #human-cruelty #men

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealins with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.


Immanuel Kant


#philosophy #men

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.


Henry Rollins


#because #better #blood #change #change things

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.


Yevgeny Zamyatin


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