#cruel

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

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#atonement #baseness #cruelty #deed #deep

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cruelty #delight #good #hell #infliction

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. ↗

— George Santayana

#free #loved #makes #those #truth