“The cruelty of this administration never seems to end. You know, a year ago, this administration told us that as Americans if we would just be cruel enough to separate little children from their parents that that would deter more families from coming to our southern border and, in fact, the opposite…”— Julian Castro, transcripts.cnn.com
“There's a reason why we never had a dog growing up. We had a bird one time when I was little. It was yellow and green. His name was Oliver. It vanished from its cage one day, and I went to see if it got outside somehow... because the window was open. I saw Campbell playing with it. And he cut its wi…”— Emily Bensinger, Sam Eliot, Sean Berdy, imdb.com
“Grandma says hi. [Lynn looks up sharply] She says she's sorry for taking the bumblebee pendant. She just likes it a lot.”— M. Night Shyamalan, Cole Sear, Haley Joel Osment, imdb.com
“Your cruelty is as sweet as this coffee I’m dumping the sugar into.”— Joe Tracz, Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com
“What do you like to do for fun on weekends? Break old ladies’ hips?”— Francesca Rollins, Oliver Goldstick, Caleb Rivers, Tyler Blackburn, imdb.com
“Walter: Wait for what? What are you waiting for? Skyler: For the cancer to come back.”— Sam Catlin, Walter White, Bryan Cranston, imdb.com
“Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.”— Heinrich Himmler, en.wikiquote.org
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“When your Excellency Considers my Sufferings, and the Cruel Situation I am in, your Own Humanity and feelings as a Soldier, will render every thing I can say farther on the Subject unnecessary.”— Benedict Arnold, founders.archives.gov
“The ultimate manipulation is to kill someone, and sociopathy is murderous in a psychological sense—there’s a kind of soul-murder going on.”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“Most of us have some kind of positive goal in mind when we think of winning. A sociopath thinks in terms of successfully manipulating someone into doing something that he or she would not have done otherwise. That can be a small thing or a tremendous thing, but the point for the sociopath is to win,…”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.”— John McCain, nytimes.com
“Human beings are still capable of violence and cruelty. We all succumb to sin. But look back at any preceding century or even just a few decades, and you will see cruelty, violence and misery on a scale that is, with few exceptions, unknown today.”— John McCain, en.wikiquote.org
“Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.com
“I knew it would be you who came to the cabin to check on me. You must be frightened—I apologize for that. I never meant to cause you any pain. I also never envisioned writing this letter. I've searched for a satisfactory explanation for what I'm doing. All I've come up with is... a profiler needs to…”— Chris Mundy, Jason Gideon, Mandy Patinkin, imdb.com
“It feels so cruel that the world would give us something we never expected and then take it away before we've had any real time together.”— Beth Szymkowski, Matthew V. Lewis, Diesel, Adam Hicks, imdb.com
“We could live a thousand lives and still never find bottom in the sea of human cruelty.”— John O'Connor, Kodiak, James Remar, imdb.com