| "Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man." »Thomas Paine |
| "Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous -- indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose." »Richard Dawkins |
| "Goodbye cruel world." »Gloria Shayne |
| "Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword." »Robert Burton |
| "He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly" »George Gordon Byron |
| "Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong." »Dr. |
| "It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind." »Edmund Spenser |
| "I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong." »Leo Rosten |
| "There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same." »Norman Mailer |
| "I must be cruel, only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind." »William Shakespeare |
| "Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save." »John Gay |
| "Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death." »Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey |
| "The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television." »Unknown |
| "I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me." »John Cleese |
| "Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental,' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it." »Brigid Antonia Brophy |
| "Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief." »James R. Lowell |
| "cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims." »Morris Raphael Cohen |
| "And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." »William Bradford |
| "Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate." »Albert Einstein |
| "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." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| "Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else." »Unknown |
| "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." »Albert Einstein |
| "The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it." »George Santayana |
| "Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant." »Edna Ferber |
| "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt." »Henry Graham Greene |
| "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source." »The Dhammapada |
| "The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety." »Charles Robert Darwin |
| "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." »Ann Landers |
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