Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity
[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering, her remorse sets in, and she does what she can to repair the wrong.
Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.
True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.
Nothing is ever certain.
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!
I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of genuine distress, and lying sentiment, the shamelessness of a vicious man rejoicing in viciousness, the bare crudity of an ugly soul -- in this eruption of all suffering and hatred there was something which was hideous as evil itself and still as poignant as truth.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
Goodness, real goodness, has it's own sort of cruelty to it.
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner.
Man is the cruelest animal.
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