#crue

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

It matters not what your individual position is on either war we are currently prosecuting - in Iraq or Afghanistan - certainly we can all agree protesting at military funerals is a cruel and unnecessary hardship on our military families during their most difficult hour. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#agree #certainly #cruel #currently #difficult

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ↗

— Ouida

#every #hand #oils #run #runs

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. ↗

— Ovid

#character #cruel #faithful #liberal #liberal arts

Kids are really cruel. ↗

— Teresa Palmer

#kids #really

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#belief #cruel #god #makes #man

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. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#cruelty #crushed #darkness #even #grave

The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#cemetery #century #cruelty #extended #human

Aristocracy is always cruel. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#aristocracy #cruel