The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one.
We are not by nature cruel.
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
I feel like most people aren't eitheror, they're bothand. You're both magnanimous and petty. You're both kind and cruel. You're never just one thing.
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.
Good Heaven, whose darling attribute we find is boundless grace, and mercy to mankind, abhors the cruel.
-"You won't like me if I'm cruel. " -"I don't like you now. " -"We don't lie. " -"I'm mortal, Irial. I can lie all I want to.
There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.
L. A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.
It's more complicated than that. I know them. They're not evil or cruel. They're not even smart. Hurting them, it's like hurting children.
When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!
There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.
(. . . ) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.
(Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and—oh—tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.