#cruel

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#bureaucratic #cruel #failure #futility #game

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#cruel #even #kindest #love #women

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. ↗

— Lord Robertson

#between #choice #conflicts #confront #costly

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#back #castro #cruelty #hand #invited

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#because #bone #cruelest #feel #game

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#bitter #cold #comes #cruel #how

Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#contagious #cruelty #uncivilized

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#mercy #truth

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is. ↗

— Kesha

#been #cruel #ever #exposed #how

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones? ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#age #attacking #besides #cruelty #ever