cruelty Quotes

“Terror made me cruel”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“He's not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency—which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbors—to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

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“I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”

― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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“Men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle! How fortunate was he who lived in the peace and security of the great forest!”

― Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes

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“Some people hurt others just because they can”

― George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

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“It was impossible that he did not love her still. Did you cease to love a person because you had been treated cruelly?”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

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“April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.”

― T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

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“If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.”

― George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?

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“What if cruelty had grown into a common passion? What if in this interval the race had lost its manliness and had developed into something inhuman, unsympathetic, and overwhelmingly powerful?”

― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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