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" Quotes and Sayings About cruel

Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.

Nature Cruel Be Don't
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.

Must Custom Matter Choice
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Fear Wisdom Main Source
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When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

Hero Heart School Script
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I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Accept Respect Term Time
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And the more technically developed a nation or race is, the more cruel, ruthless, predatory, and commercialized its systems tend to become … all because we continue to think like animals and have not learned how to think consistently like human beings.

Human Animal Race Cruel
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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.

Spilled Cruelty Necessary Disharmony
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I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Cruel Just Man Nature
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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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.

Cruel Does Fiber Free
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.

Cruel Force Hands Loved
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The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.

Cruel Free Loved Makes
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Against Being Black Could
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

Cruel Founded Greater More
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He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Could Cruel Earth He
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

Cruelest Man Perfection Portray
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Cruel Expected Gentleness Only
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All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Cruel Describe Frankness People
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.

Best Come Conversations Cruel
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Courage Cruelty Expectations Humanity
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Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is -- whether its victim is human or animal -- we cannot expect things to be much better in this world. We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing, we set back the progress of humanity.

Cruelty Humanity Nature Peace
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Angry Cruelty Direct Effect
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What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Cruel Fill Hatred Hearts
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Terror made me cruel.

Cruel Made Me Terror
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The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Always Been Between Certain
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There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.

Fear God Cruel Deeds
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Book Clumsy Cruel Devil
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
Cruel Got Right Saying
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Heart Small Children Delicate
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Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

Terror Useless Cruelties Perpetrated
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Cruelty Animals Significant Vices
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Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.

Cruel Heart Song Reading-eyes
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

Age Arbitrary Childhood False
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We are not by nature cruel.

Cruel We By Nature
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
Close Cruel Hearts Order
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Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.

Loyalty Obedience Wisdom Arbitrary power
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Bitter Childhood Cruel Did
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My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Bitter Child Cruel Did
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There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Cruel Else Grow Just
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Also Always Cruelty Others
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The decision to make Kat Von D Beauty cruelty-free was easy and simple. Sure, my products won't sell in China because of my decision, but if it spares an innocent animal from a life of torture, that is completely worth it in my book.

Animal Beauty Because Book
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I've always viewed makeup as the gateway drug to animal activism. It really doesn't require any sacrificing or changing anything other than just replacing products that were once used to torture animals with ones that perform just as well and are cruelty-free.

Activism Always Animal Animals
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I feel like Too Faced has always followed the same ethics as Kat Von D Beauty. They've been cruelty-free and really vocal advocates for anti-animal cruelty, and that's something that's such a deal breaker for me.

Advocate Always Beauty Been
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Also Animals Becomes Cruel
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Cruelty Mercy Truth With
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The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine

Capacity Passion Cruel
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.

Back Cannot Critic Cruel
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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.

Scenes Blood Cruelty Heart
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