Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case. Votes: 3
Albert CamusCruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it. Votes: 3
Lana Del ReyWhere are you going? (Nykyrian) To get a drink and kill Cruel"not necessarily in that order. (Syn) Votes: 3
Sherrilyn KenyonExperience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeDespite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettThis affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me Votes: 0
Patricia McCormickCondoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention, Votes: 0
Vladimir ZhirinovskyIgnorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind. Votes: 0
Jennifer ChiaveriniHe who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheFamiliarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness Votes: 0
Marie Louise De La RameeAtrocity is truly emperor; All things that thrive are slaves of cruel Creation. Votes: 0
John UpdikeFailure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamI only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. Votes: 0
Brigitte BardotCast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. Votes: 0
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosChildren are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. Votes: 0
Dennis PotterOne of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel. Votes: 0
Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st BaronetI hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government. Votes: 0
Doris LessingI remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids. Votes: 0
Joel EdgertonL.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals. Votes: 0
Michael MooreWar, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillPity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other. Votes: 0
Taylor CaldwellI revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. Votes: 0
Ellen GlasgowComedy is a cruel mistress, especially if you're already seeing a really cruel mistress. Votes: 0
Dov DavidoffHow can the most cruel and despicable create something as breathtaking beautiful as this? Votes: 0
D.S. WrightsThroughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless. Votes: 0
Al GoreThe paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. Votes: 0
Christopher IsherwoodI am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. Votes: 0
Clarence DarrowLife was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it." Votes: 0
John Nicholas GrayI must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareFolly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyNo wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other Votes: 0
Ammianus MarcellinusLovers are allowed to be as cruel as anything to the one who dissappoints them. Votes: 0
Nuala O'Faolain...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason... Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamShe (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them. Votes: 0
Ralph McGillYour belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiOther countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel. Votes: 0
Andy BorowitzIt's terrible when the weak are also cruel for then we are defenseless against them. Votes: 0
Rachel FieldI also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel. Votes: 0
Julia HillDepression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. Votes: 0
Dorothy RoweWe know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinNature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciBond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. Votes: 0
Terence YoungIt's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. Votes: 0
Paul McCartneyThus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. Votes: 0
Russell BrandThe Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonA fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel. Votes: 0
George SantayanaFamily responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no. Votes: 0
Barbara MikulskiThe cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. Votes: 0
Samuel Eliot MorisonAtheism is a cruel long term business, and I have gone through it to the end. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreIt was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another. Votes: 0
Mark TwainOf all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinYour own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. Votes: 0
King SolomonPersecution is not wrong because it is cruel; but it is cruel because it is wrong. Votes: 0
Richard WhatelyIf one is cruel to himself, how can we expect him to be compassionate with others? Votes: 0
Hasdai ibn ShaprutIn a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. Votes: 0
Robert JordanJesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Votes: 0
Elton JohnIt's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to. Votes: 0
Kenneth BranaghHeaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Votes: 0
Anne Rice(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop. Votes: 0
James JoyceAnything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place. Votes: 0
Matthew InmanHope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return. Votes: 0
Harlan CobenA beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyAnd life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. Votes: 0
Melina MarchettaDemocracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenMengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings. Votes: 0
Mengistu Haile MariamThere is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin. Votes: 0
Dietrich BonhoefferThere are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven. Votes: 0
John E. DouglasBut history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors. Votes: 0
Kate MortonFear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! Votes: 0
Constantin StanislavskiIn order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other. Votes: 0
J. M. CoetzeeLife is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later. Votes: 0
Daymond JohnWe live in a world that is cruel to the earth itself. Man is a biological terrorist. Votes: 0
Sufjan StevensIs it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? Votes: 0
Voltairine de CleyreIt strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. Votes: 0
Bret Easton EllisFirst there is the search and rescue phase that is now ending. It is a cruel reality. Votes: 0
Jan Egeland"It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenThere is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiA stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerIf we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey. Votes: 0
Martin FirrellThe wit of man has devised cruel statutes, And nature oft permits what is by law forbid. Votes: 0
OvidA stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. Votes: 0
Herbert SpencerFor love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel. Votes: 0
Neil GaimanAfrica is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds Votes: 0
Elspeth HuxleyMy father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI hate you! (Artemis) Don't keep saying that, Artie. It's cruel to get my hopes up. (Acheron) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonAs we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow. Votes: 0
HoraceDeception is a cruel act... It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul Votes: 0
Donna A. FavorsWe must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is! Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheCompared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises. Votes: 0
Nujood AliA poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, Votes: 0
Carolyn KizerThe camera is just a machine, which records with impressive and as a rule very cruel faithfulness. Votes: 0
James Agee[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsI think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel. Votes: 0
Nancy SinatraBounds should be set To ingenuity for being so cruel In bringing change unheralded on the unready. Votes: 0
Robert FrostThe wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it. Votes: 0
Axel MuntheI think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Votes: 0
Aaron EckhartThe truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. Votes: 0
George SantayanaI don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. Votes: 0
Bill HicksHow was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time? Votes: 0
Lian HearnI coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done Votes: 0
Rosamund HodgeNothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth. Votes: 0
Dorothy L. SayersO my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed! Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheMy heart is sand and Orion's cruel tide has washed it away from me, scattered it, lost it. Votes: 0
Kiersten WhiteWhen your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. Votes: 0
Antonio PorchiaWhat a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors. Votes: 0
Robert E. LeeFor too many women pregnancy is just the start of loneliness and abuse. It is a cruel reality. Votes: 0
Fay RipleyI think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific. Votes: 0
Elizabeth HurleyWe also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling. Votes: 0
Henri PoincareA cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others. Votes: 0
John LahrLife, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Votes: 0
Stephen FryDo you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live. Votes: 0
Stephen KingSure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsIt seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to. Votes: 0
George R. R. MartinWhy did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel? Votes: 0
J.C. ReedIs cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie? Votes: 0
Johnny Richwhile nearly every way of falling in love is kind, every way of getting out of love is cruel. Votes: 0
J. E. BuckroseWe manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreThe Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy. Votes: 0
Ben EltonThe gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope. Votes: 0
Robert Jackson BennettYou know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other. Votes: 0
Steve IrwinHe's been through so much and to watch that boy suffer makes me wish this world wasn't so cruel. Votes: 0
Shannon A. ThompsonIt was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel. Votes: 0
David LevithanAnger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. Votes: 0
Lynn G. RobbinsThe truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh. Votes: 0
Laura KreitzerIt is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamHe does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyBurnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you. Votes: 0
Tupac ShakurAh, cruel 'tis to love, And cruel not to love, But cruelest of all To love and love in vain. Votes: 0
AnacreonWhy did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayI would leave at once, but it would be cruel to abandon a lady in a foreign land with a maniac. Votes: 0
Cassandra ClareThe jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do. Votes: 0
Monica LewinskyIt is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. Votes: 0
Tammy BaldwinTime is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. Votes: 0
Elizabeth Forsythe HaileyVale más un desengaño, por cruel que sea, que una perniciosa incertidumbre
Francisco de Paula SantanderSi la muerte no fuera el preludio a otra vida, la vida presente sería una burla cruel
Mahatma GandhiSi la muerte no fuera el preludio a otra vida, la vida presente sería una burla cruel.
Mahatma GandhiSon mis amigos los héroes de toda una vida, dulce emoción que transpone la cruel realidad
Miguel AbueloLa humanidad es una familia unida e indivisible, y yo no puedo desligarme del alma más cruel.
Mahatma GandhiWe either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. Votes: 3 Leon Panetta
And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference. Votes: 1 Lord Robertson
When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait. Votes: 2 A. B. Simpson
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart. Votes: 1 Eliza Cook
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. Votes: 4 Tennessee Williams
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Votes: 3 John McCain
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. Votes: 1 Terry Pratchett
If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation. Votes: 2 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa. Votes: 1 Aaron Eckhart