Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities.
Ernst Thalmann

Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
Tony Dorsett

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida

Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Barbara Mikulski

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
Matthew Prior

Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.
Jonathan Ross

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
Zachary Quinto

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Jamie Lee Curtis

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
Venus Williams

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
Bill Hicks

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
David Duchovny

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
John Cleese

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
Leo Rosten