(92 quotes found)
“I must be cruel only to be kind”
William Shakespeare
“It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don’t think it will come back.”
Maya Angelou
“Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it”
Mark Twain
“Terror made me cruel . . .”
Emily Bronte
“I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.”
Bill Hicks
“Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'”
Albert Schweitzer
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
John Cleese
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
Thomas Paine
“No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art”
Michel de Montaigne
