Quotes About Cruel

Science which has become a great power in the last century, has analyzed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred. But they have only analyzed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvelous.

La única interpretación es que el hombre puede ser infinitamente cruel con su semejante. Puede ser cruel sin conocer al prójimo, sin haberle visto el rostro ni haber sostenido su mirada. Puede ser cruel por decisión soberana y autónoma. Como si ese prójimo no fuera un espejo. Cuando destruye el espejo, se destruye a sí mismo.

British humour is very cruel. It's my favourite kind of humour; if it isn't cruel and funny it doesn't really cut the cake for me.

Expositors take away the speech of their familiars, among other things, so they can't reveal any secrets. It goes back to the Hierarchs." Cohort Leader Ashen frowned. "But there's no point to that. She talks in sign." Ashem was too naive for this world if she thought people were only cruel when there was a point to it.

Expositors take away the speech of their familiars, among other things, so they can't reveal any secrets. It goes back to the Hierarchs." Cohort Leader Ashem frowned. "But there's no point to that. She talks in sign." Ashem was too naive for this world if she thought people were only cruel when there was a point to it.

what cruel and bloodthirsty beasts are smug presumption, vain-glory, pride, and carelessness

She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.

Love and stoplights can be cruel.

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.

A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.

The silence stretched, and I heard a chain that was no longer there, jingling. I felt Jase holding me in a river, keeping my head above the water... If he had been cruel back then, his lies now would hurt me less.

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

Good King Wenceslas tastes great; We might as well eat Stephen, When the brains lay round about, Toasted crisp and bleedin'. Brightly shown the moon that night, Though the virus cruel. When a poor man came in sight, He made fine undead fuel.

The feeling of closeness when we talked on the phone was too violent, and the void that came afterward too cruel.

Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.

Si el hombre ríe, si es el único, en el reino animal, que muestra esa atroz deformación facial, es también porque, superando el egoísmo de la naturaleza animal, es el único que ha alcanzado la fase infernal y suprema de la crueldad.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

One would prefer a physical trouble which would produce outspoken feeblemindedness with its limited range of harmful effects to this encephalitis which may produce an intellectual, tormented and cruel monster out of a gentle girl or boy

She knew that the only love her demon was capable of was self-destructive, cruel, vampiric, parasitic, and all the other words her best friends had used to describe Jerry, Alec, Christian, Matt, and the others whose names, faces, and genitalia had now blurred together in her memories. They were men incapable of love yet able to inspire suicide threats.

Humans are selfish and cruel and possessive and jealous and greedy. And violent. Violent above all. The only difference is… some of us are better at it.

As hostility toward government spread in America, there have been determined efforts to cut taxes, particularly for the wealthy, and then "starve the beast"--using reduced revenue to justify cuts in services for the disadvantaged. This is both disingenuous and cruel, as well as out of step with the advanced world.

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel.

Oh, I just adore nasties.