Cruel Quotes - page 2

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? (Joseph Addison)
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive"; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture-in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me. View quote
John Cleese
I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. View quote
Leo Rosten
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. View quote
Bill Hicks
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. View quote
Stephen King
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, and being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying ''the Son, O how unlike the Father'' First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it. View quote
William Blake
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. View quote
Anatole France
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Mark Twain)
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. View quote
Melina Marchetta
I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war. View quote
Franklin Pierce
I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. View quote
Elizabeth Hurley
Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live. View quote
Alfred Stieglitz
We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. View quote
Leon Panetta
How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time? View quote
Lian Hearn
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims. View quote
Morris Raphael Cohen
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. View quote
Comte de Lautreamont
I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. View quote
Nancy Sinatra
[B]y requiring that an execution be relatively painless, we necessarily protect the inmate from enduring any punishment that is comparable to the suffering inflicted on his victim. This trend, while appropriate and required by the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based. (John Paul Stevens)
Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel. View quote
John Quincy Adams
Not only did waging war against Hitler fail to save the Jews, it may be that the war itself brought on the Final Solution of genocide. This is not to remove the responsibility from Hitler and the Nazis, but there is much evidence that Germany's anti-Semitic actions, cruel as they were, would not have turned to mass murder were it not for the psychic distortions of war, acting on already distorted minds. Hitler's early aim was forced emigration, not extermination, but the frenzy of it created an atmosphere in which the policy turned to genocide. View quote
Howard Zinn
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man. View quote
Thomas Paine
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. View quote
Graham Greene