#cruelty

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#cruelty #heart #love #neglect #love

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy." [Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#fighting #foreign-policy #literature #narrow-mindedness #prejudice

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#fear #pity #softened

There is a ceaseless war against drunkenness and cruelty and vice. ↗

— Anthony Blunt

#ceaseless #cruelty #drunkenness #vice #war

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march. ↗

— George W. Bush

#because #cruelty #cunning #fear #fighting

I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#beings #believe #cruelty #form #i

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#best #commands #cruelty #fear #hate

London has always been a haven for victims of cruelty, and been improved by them. Yet I can see it changing now. Outsiders are demonised, there are little bits of legislation, people are scared. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#been #bits #changing #cruelty #haven

To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed"-Jace Wayland ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #wisdom #love

I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty. ↗

— Brent Spiner

#character #cruelty #data #extremely #i