#cruel

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

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

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

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

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. ↗

— Rue McClanahan

#fashion #fashion statement #statement #without

War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. ↗

— John McCain

#could #cruel #description #fool #fraud

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade. ↗

— Bette Midler

#because #big #conformity #cruelty #group

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#bankruptcy #cruel #due #family #government

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cruelty #music #oppression #simple #soft

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