Cruel Quotes

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

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.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.