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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

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

This monument is going to be built as a symbol. ↗

— Bill Russell

#going #monument #symbol

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. ↗

— Richard Russo

#continued #good #good health #got #head

I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#favorites #go #i #knack #movies

I think that if people are instructed about anything, it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost, and a price to be paid. ↗

— Richard Russo

#always #anything #behave #cost #cruelly

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard. ↗

— Richard Russo

#best #comedy #comic #doing #easy

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it. ↗

— Richard Russo

#go #looking #theme #ultimately #will

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#been #born #easy #felt #got

Reason would lead us to the conclusion that Jehovah would not create a wonderful earth like this, permit man to bring it to a high state of cultivation in many places, and then completely destroy it. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#completely #conclusion #create #cultivation #destroy