I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty I will answer that war is war and not popularity seeking.

War is cruelty and none can make it gentle.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong truth and error justice and injustice cruelty and mercy.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty the truth has to do with mercy.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life it supports them all lends strength to them all ambition cruelty avarice revenge are all founded on lust.

All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty dominance inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

Cruelty is a part of nature at least of human nature but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature 'human' might be the greater insult.

My loathings are simple: stupidity oppression crime cruelty soft music.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.

Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect indifference cruelty or adultery to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.

The impulse to cruelty is in many people almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Love has its place as does hate. Peace has its place as does war. Mercy has its place as do cruelty and revenge.

Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.