In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.
Vasily GrossmanTags: life compassion good cruelty
Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.
Shannon L. AlderTags: silence conflict games cruelty stalking angry disputes hurting painful ignoring not-caring not-listening not-communicating false-piety playing-games deceitful cruetly disrespectful fake-christianity hurting-me lashing-out not-nice passive-agressive
Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.
Clare MulleyTags: wwii cruelty sacrifice biography spies second-world-war soe christine-granville krystyna-skarbek special-agent
There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.
Clarence DarrowTags: free-will justice cruelty myths
I return one last time to the places of death all around us, the places of slaughter to which, in a huge communal effort, we close our hearts. Each day a fresh holocaust, yet, as far as I can see, our moral being is untouched. We do not feel tainted. We can do anything, it seems, and come away clean.
We point to the Germans and Poles and Ukrainians who did and did not know of the atrocities around them. We like to think they were inwardly marked by the after-effects of that special form of ignorance. We like to think that in their nightmares the ones whose suffering they had refused to enter came back to haunt them. We like to think they woke up haggard in the mornings and died of gnawing cancers. But probably it was not so. The evidence points in the opposite direction: that we can do anything and get away with it; that there is no punishment.
Tags: animal-rights violence cruelty global-epidemic-of-psychopathy jewish-holocaust
There is no redemption in a cruel man's love.
Nenia CampbellA boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.
Shannon L. AlderTags: man manners confidence paranoia cruelty boy coward scared seriously insecure grow-up fearful grownup inmature lack-of-confidence speak-for-yourself using-people
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. CoswayTags: cruelty
Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.
Shannon L. AlderTags: communication marriage relationships responsibility cruelty misunderstandings unfairness talking resolutions conflicts fights unspoken-words hateful god-s-children finishing-it unanswered-questions
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.
Don CupittTags: morality ethics hate tyranny values justification cruelty objectivism humanitarian divine-command-theory
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