cruelty

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

There is no honor in cruelty.

No, you listen! All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!

I meant that the hatred of that July day in Nashville was alive and well on that horrible day in Pittsburgh. People hate others so they strike like snakes. It__ all connected__e__e all connected, bumping around into each other, some of us good, some bad, most a mixture. Every thought acted upon has consequences. Every one.

Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.

Your tears are never invisible---there is always an insecure woman that lights up when you point them out.

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

My mother always tells me that anyone who gets enjoyment from other people's misery will eventually get the greatest discomfort from his or her own miseries.

Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind__ behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption.

However miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn__ really hurt.

Old people deserves a medal, a medal of existence which crowns their long-term victory against the cruelty of time and the dangers of this chaotic universe!

I never, even for a moment, doubted what they__ told me. This is why it is that adults and even parents can, unwittingly, be cruel: they cannot imagine doubt__ complete absence. They have forgotten.

An encounter with God demands a response. An encounter with Satan demands your God's response.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.