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The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

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The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy
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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.

L.H. Cosway, The Nature of Cruelty
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Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.

Amit Kalantri
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Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?

Johnny Rich, The Human Script
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.

George Bernard Shaw
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He's probably divorced. Mental cruelty.

Margaret Way, The Girl at Cobalt Creek
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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.

John Fowles, The Magus
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All cruelty springs from weakness.

Seneca
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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.

Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
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You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

Gloria Naylor, Linden Hills
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