530 Quotes About Cruelty

Why was she always so cruel, I wondered, even after I had worked so hard for her? Perhaps she needed someone beneath her to know for certain that she was not on the bottom rung. Perhaps being cruel was proof of her success.

And she was sorry. She knew better. Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

Sometimes, silence and unresponsive conduct cause a cruelty.

Cruelty to own people for the interests of others, it raises the fire of revenge in the hearts of the victims, and any enemy can misuse them for every purpose. Seed love and harvest love.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

It was just like Aleksander to steal even this from him, Gavriel thought. To treat the duel as a joke, to treat him as a joke. Now his only choices were to take aim at a man about to fall over or to bear the shame of crying off. And Aleksander would laugh at him later. I wasn’t so very drunk, he would say. And if I was, so what? If you weren’t such a milksop, then surely you’d have—Gavriel raised his pistol and shot his brother through the heart.

Inhuman, V says. But that's an easy word. We've been doing that sort of thing to each other all through history, back past the Pyramids. Humans are inhuman, whether it's by direct action or by acceptance of a horrible action as normal.

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Man dares to allow himself to be cruel, when he's already committed, tranquilly and repeatedly, the crudest act of all: engendering, condemning beings that do not exist or suffer to the horrors of life.