#cruel

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#attended #cruelty #fear #tyrant

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#fill #hatred #hearts #instead #love

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. ↗

— King Solomon

#destroyed #kind #nourished #own #soul

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#evil #government #hate #i #iran

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#desperately #i #longer #monotonous #nothing

Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#crimes #cruel #differences #men #punishing

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

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. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

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