Cruel Quotes
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate -
I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.
Vicki Lawrence
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As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Oscar Wilde -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke -
The law is cruel.
Jack Kevorkian -
Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips -
Showbiz can be cruel.
Nadia Bjorlin -
We are not by nature cruel.
J. M. Coetzee
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Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
Ian Mckellen -
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida -
Kids are very cruel to each other.
Natalie Dormer -
...it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.
Dale Evans -
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Octavian Paler -
My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.
Nancy Sinatra -
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein -
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.
Rick Astley -
It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
J. M. Coetzee
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
Octave Mirbeau -
It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
Al Pacino -
To revive sorrow is cruel.
Sophocles -
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
Nick Clooney