Cruel Quotes

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all.

I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

The cruel injustice is that even though the world's poor are doing essentially nothing to cause climate change, they're going to suffer the most from it.

I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.