Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.
Albert Bandura
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Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Samuel Richardson
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips
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Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid
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My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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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
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No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
Steven Pinker
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I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.
Molly Ivins
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Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.
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It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew
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When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
Claire Bloom
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Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
William J. Clinton
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Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way.
Nicola Sturgeon
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
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Time can be very good or very cruel to films.
James Gray
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Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
Elton John
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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.
Albert Einstein
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
Paul McCartney
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It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.
Frank Black
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The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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If there's a 'Cruel Summer' then there's got to be a 'Cruel Winter,' right? That's all I'm saying.
Q-Tip
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School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.
Kate Bush
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Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.
Matthew Scully
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