Cruel
See Crewel.
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
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Cruel Quotations
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Albert Einstein
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
Charles Darwin
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine
Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King
He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?
Lord Byron
Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
James Russell Lowell
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
Robert E. Lee
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade
Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara
I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.
Bill Hicks
The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
Steve Irwin
All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.
Ann Landers
Every social injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste.
William Feather
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?
Ann Coulter
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
Ovid
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
Hedy Lamarr
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Mailer
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.
King Solomon
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph Addison
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Cruel Translations
cruel in Afrikaans is wreedaardig
cruel in Danish is grusom
cruel in Dutch is wreed, barbaars, wreedaardig
cruel in Finnish is julma
cruel in French is cruel
cruel in German is grausam
cruel in Italian is crudele
cruel in Latin is crudelis, atrox, inhumanus, ferreus
cruel in Norwegian is grusom
cruel in Spanish is cruel
cruel in Swedish is grym
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