There's a certain edge about cruelty. If you're honest about it, most people wince, but say it had to be said.
It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.
I think he is an extremely accessible character. In Data there is no potential for cruelty.
I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.
War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.
If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking.
I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Farewell, fair cruelty.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.