C Quotes
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“Cruel men believe in a cruel god and use their belief to excuse their cruelty. Only kindly men believe in a kindly god, and they would be kindly in any case.”
Source: Last Philosophical Testament: 1943-68
“Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.”
“Cruel mothers are still mothers. They make us wars. they make us revolution. They teach us the truth. early. Mothers are humans who sometimes give birth to their pain. Instead of children”
Source: Salt
“Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you was the pen bitten, And the mind wrung, and the song written.”
Source: Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition
“Cruel optimism is the condition of maintaining an attachment to a problematic object in advance of its loss.”
Source: The Affect Theory Reader
“Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.”
“Cruel people are not only people who kill innocent people with guns. Individuals who steal from government coffers to enrich themselves at the expense of the poor are grossly cruel.”
Source: Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
“Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.”
“Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.”
“Cruel to be kind means that I love you.”
“Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
“Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.”
“Cruel World has been my favourite track from Ultraviolence ever since I recorded it.”
“Cruel, but composed and bland,
Dumb, inscrutable and grand,
So Tiberius might have sat,
Had Tiberius been a cat.”
“Crueler the punishment, braver the love,
It is no love that avoids punishment.
Only half lovers try to keep pain at bay,
Soaked in pain true lovers emerge triumphant.”
Source: Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission
“Cruelly exploiting and slaughtering human beings is widely recognized as spiritually problematic, but the veal industry is not, battery cages are not, foie gras and the use of farrowing crates are not, debeaking and slaughter lines are not. How can this be? Anymal suffering is extreme on factory farms, massive numbers of premature deaths are the expected end, and both are sanctioned not only by the government but also by the masses—including those who affiliate with a particular religious tradition and take their religious commitments seriously. The reason for this cruelty and indifference is obvious: With human beings creating the rules, anymals are the last to be noticed and the most likely to be discarded or exploited. Consequently, wherever humanity suffers, anymals suffer yet more.”
Source: Animals and World Religions
“Cruelties should be committed all at once.”
Source: Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince
“cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.”
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together.”
“Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.”
Source: Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
“Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.”
“Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.”
Source: Eating Animals
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”
“Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart.”
“Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Cruelty has a human heart,
And Jealousy a human face;”
Source: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
“Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.”
“Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.”
Source: Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen
“Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.”
“Cruelty is a child of ignorance, and someday men will stop judging and condemning each other. I am really more interested in this than anything else; I wish I could make the world kinder and more humane than it is.”
Source: Clarence Darrow for the defense
“Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.”
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and light…unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous…we don’t know what’s going on here. If these tremendous events are random combinations of matter run amok, the yield of millions of monkeys at millions of typewriters, then what is it in us, hammered out of those same typewriters, that they ignite? We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.”
Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK
“Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.”
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
“Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.”
“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.”
“Cruelty is absolutely foreign to their natures.Some people once talked of setting up a branch of the " Prevention of Cruelty to Animals" in Serbia, and were asked in astonishment what work they supposed they would find to do ; who ever heard of a Serbian being cruel to child or animal?”
Source: An English Woman-Sergeant in the Serbian Army
“Cruelty is cheap, easy, and chickenshit." That's also a touchstone of my spiritual beliefs.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Cruelty is cruelty, whether it's cruelty to children, to the elderly, to dogs and cats, or to chickens.”
“Cruelty is easy to repay, my lord. Kindness is another matter.”
Source: The Bird and the Blade
“Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.”
“Cruelty is equally distributed between the sexes.”
“Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.”
“Cruelty is lack of courage.”
“Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.”
“Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Cruelty is no more the cure of crimes than it is the cure of sufferings; compassion, in the first instance, is good for both; I have known it to bring compunction when nothing else would.”
Source: Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor
“Cruelty is not a literary value.”
“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”