Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.
We have laws against torture. The Constitution says nothing whatever about torture. It speaks of punishment; 'cruel and unusual' punishments are forbidden.
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Kids can be annoying. Especially teenagers - oh my gosh. They can be cruel.
Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
I think human relationships - the whole thing is cruel. It's very difficult.
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.'
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.
I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.