#cruel

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

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Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone. ↗

— Hedda Hopper

#deals #empty #fall #favor #most

I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

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It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel. ↗

— Frank Black

#kill #obvious #steal #you

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics. ↗

— William J. Brennan

#conflict #conflicts #cruelest #fanatics #into

Love has its place, as does hate. Peace has its place, as does war. Mercy has its place, as do cruelty and revenge. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#does #hate #love #mercy #peace

The law is cruel. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#law

War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. ↗

— Gilbert Parker

#gentle #make #none #war

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. ↗

— Leo Rosten

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