Cruelty Quotes - Page 16

• To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which have built great men and women and point the way by which one may find happiness in the living of today and eternal joy in the world to come. These are the qualities which are the anchors to our lives, in spite of the trials, the tragedies, the pestilences, and the cruelties of war which bring in their wake appalling destruction, hunger, and bloodshed

  Harold B. Lee

  Honesty, War, Character

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• What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Men, Giving

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.372, Spiegel & Grau

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• How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Fall, Blow

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• Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Death, Running

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• Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Hurt, Pain, Broken

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.173, Macmillan

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• My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Race, Age

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.11, Routledge

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• When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pity, Casts, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

  Terri Irwin

  Animal, Battle, Piglet

  Terri Irwin (2008). “Steve & Me”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wrath, Ideas, Suffering

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “One Silent Night”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• I pity those born of the lighter side. They have no understanding of how seductive cruelty is. The music made out of screams and pleas for mercy. Mmmm. Nothing better. (Noir)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Seductive, Understanding, Noir

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dream Warrior”, p.72, Macmillan

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• To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Suffering, Principles, Doe

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• We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Political, Ease, Politics

  N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Scum, May, Dies

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• He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Evil, Leader, Made

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• If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

  John Steinbeck

  Anger, Littles, Might

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez".

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• In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.

  Justin Cronin

  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• But don’t you find the concept of love unusual? (Alix) Not at all. Love I understand completely. It’s hatred that puzzles me. I don’t comprehend finding pleasure in cruelty. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hatred, Unusual, Pleasure

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.193, Macmillan

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• The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference.

  Edith Wharton

  Hands, People, Golden

  "Complete Works of Edith Wharton".

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• The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That’s the sound of being alive. It’s your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it’s all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can’t-do-this, and can’t-do-that’s, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.

  Brom

  Fun, Heart, Race

  Brom (2009). “The Child Thief: A Novel”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Blessing, Youth, Enough

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• Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Heart, Men, Blood

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.378, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Ideas, Wonder, Made

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.58, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Kind, Worst

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more”, p.5874, e-artnow

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• This group had a kind of dark glamour within the castle. They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dark, Leader, Ambitious

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