“Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear”
Thomas Fuller
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
Bertrand Russell
“The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.”
George W. Bush
“Fear is the parent of cruelty.”
James Anthony Froude
“Cruelty and fear shake hands together”
Honore de Balzac
“Ignorance is not bliss; ignorance is impotence; it is fear; it is cruelty; it is all the things that make for unhappiness”
Ingrid Holtby
“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”