#cruel

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#cruel #die #dogs #free #good

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#always #cruelty #others #ourselves #towards

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#magnanimous #serious #struggle #than #time

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.' ↗

— Alice Walker

#chain #choose #convinced #cruelty #delight

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it. ↗

— Daniel Waters

#being #cruel #cynical #entertainment #evil

In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#agree #beliefs #better #bring #context

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#describe #frankness #people #themselves

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty. ↗

— Venus Williams

#come #conversations #cruel #dirty #friends

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned. ↗

— John Brown Gordon

#cruelly #ever #history #maligned #misunderstood

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. ↗