Cruel Quotes

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel. (Che Guevara)
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. View quote
Germaine Greer
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. View quote
Norman Mailer
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. View quote
George Santayana
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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. View quote
James Russell Lowell
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equal partnership. View quote
Ann Landers
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering, I feel like I am a little cruel. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Men are cruel, but Man is kind. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. (Ovid)
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! View quote
Charles Darwin
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. View quote
Tennessee Williams
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. View quote
Joseph Addison
One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. View quote
Morarji Desai
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Aristocracy is always cruel. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. View quote
Molière
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. View quote
Albert Einstein
The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. (Axel Munthe)
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. View quote
Kenneth Branagh
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony. View quote
Benjamin Britten
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. View quote
John McCain
Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims. View quote
Amos Oz