Matthew Scully Quotes

“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”

“Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.”

“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”

“Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?”

“Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.”

“He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.”

“So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.”

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“It’s a small painful sort of courage which is at the root of every life, because injustice and cruelty is at the root of life. And the reason why I have only given my attention to the heroic or the beautiful or the intelligent is because I won’t accept that injustice and the cruelty, and so won’t accept the small endurance that is bigger than anything.”

“You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.”