#cruel

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

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

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

#conquer #cruelty #fear #main #main source

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

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#child #childhood #complicated #crazy #creature

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#doctrine #guilt #make #nothing #ourselves

Farewell, fair cruelty. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fair #farewell

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cruelty #delicious #find #hurt #only