#cruelty

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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

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.


L.M. Montgomery


#l-m-montgomery #dreams

For Mercy has a human heart; Pity, a human face; And Love, the human form divine: And Peace the human dress. Songs of Innocence Cruelty has a human heart And jealousy a human face, Terror the human form divine, And secrecy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace seal'd, The human heart its hungry gorge. Songs of Experience - This poem was discovered posthumously.


William Blake


#human-nature #innocence #experience

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.


R.D. Ronald


#cruelty #ironies #life

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.


Nalini Singh


#knowledge-wisdom #life-lessons #living-life #love #people

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.


Carson McCullers


#cruelty #heart #love #neglect #love

It's despair at the lack of (I'm cheating, I didn't say all these things - but I'm going to write what I want to say as well as what I did) feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world.


John Fowles


#humanity #pacifism #violence #love

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.


C.J. Sansom


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

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.


T.S. Eliot


#cruelty #poetry #seasons #weather #dead

...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...


John Geddes


#comments #cruelty #hurt #ignore #response