Why was she always so cruel, I wondered, even after I had worked so hard for her? Perhaps she needed someone beneath her to know for certain that she was not on the bottom rung. Perhaps being cruel was proof of her success.
There is no one so cruel as those closest to you.
With the utmost love as our motivation, we somethings think we are doing what is best for our children by protecting them from unpleasantness or cruelty. All we are really doing is shielding ourselves from owning up to misfortune or bad judgment.
I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the sort of choice I expect science to protect me from, not give me.
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.
In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.
Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.
Gentleness is the antidote for cruelty.
Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
The bust of Colonel Sanders stands as a monument to cruelty and has no place in the Kentucky state Capitol.
I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.