cruelty

Sentimentalist_ is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn__.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

I'm not a cruel man. I mean, technically I'm not a man at all.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn__ guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

When someone would mistreat, misinform, misuse, misguide, mishandle, mislead_ or any other "mis"_ to others, they__e obviously missing something from their lives.

Probably human cruelty is fixed and eternal. Only styles change.

And the answer is: You are wrong. The Faeries are not gone. But they are no longer what they were. I watched it and did not help them, though I could have. I cheered. I cheered and I wept and I was glad. Perhaps I should not have been. Perhaps laughing at agony is a Fairy's game and I should not have moved my pieces on their board.

So muchhuman cruelty is simplyincidental is simplybrainless. Simply nocommon sense. You couldtake the entirety of thecommon sense of humansand put it in the palm ofyour hand and still haveroom for your dick.

She builds people up because she knows what it is like to be torn down.

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.

[Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage of the licence so thoughtlessly, so thoroughly, that it becomes perfectly clear: the generality of mankind are only waiting for the chance, only waiting for outward circumstance to sanction brutality and allow them to be cruel and brutal to their heart's content.

But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd__is glassy essence__ike an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal.

If we are not given the option to live without violence, we are given the choice to center our meals around harvest or slaughter, husbandry or war. We have chosen slaughter. We have chosen war. That's the truest version of our story of eating animals.Can we tell a new story?

It__ cruelty that gets to me. Still, it__ important to read about cruelty.__hy is it important?_ Because when you read about it, it__ easier to recognize. That was always the hardest thing in the refugee camps__o hear the stories of the people who had been raped or mutilated or forced to watch a parent or a sister or a child be raped or killed. It__ very hard to come face-to-face with such cruelty. But people can be cruel in lots of ways, some very subtle. I think that__ why we all need to read about it. I think that__ one of the amazing things about Tennessee Williams__ plays. He was so attuned to cruelty__he way Stanley treats Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. It starts with asides and looks and put-downs. There are so many great examples from Shakespeare__hen Goneril torments King Lear or the way Iago speaks to Othello. And what I love about Dickens is the way he presents all types of cruelty. You need to learn to recognize these things right from the start. Evil almost always starts with small cruelties.

I always take credit for my acts of cruelty. To do otherwise is cowardice.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois