Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness
It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.
The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
It's not just that life is cruel, but that in the very process of our birth we submit to life's cruelty
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living.
Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois
Life has shown me all too often that there is no rhyme or reason to the cruelty inflicted upon humanity.
There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured.
Cruelty to children is the thing I can least bear in the world.
What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.
In life you'll meet a lot of jerks. If they hurt you, tell yourself that it's because they're stupid. That will help keep you from reacting to their cruelty. Because there is nothing worse than bitterness and vengeance. . . Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.
The business of love is cruelty which, by our wills, we transform to live together.
Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time it's this theatre for various kinds of cruelty. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but the worst possible behaviour is sort of allowed for. It looks to me like an endlessly rich container for really terrible drama, but also pretty grand love. It accommodates such a variety of feeling in such a natural way, and it feels so relatable, and yet it's such a funny construct, socially, the family.