A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
Jake Roberts

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

Africa is a cruel country; it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no one minds.
Elspeth Huxley

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams

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

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
Publilius Syrus

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.
Lord Robertson

Aristocracy is always cruel.
Wendell Phillips

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
Thomas Paine

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
Terence Young

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Renata Adler

Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
Joe Klein

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
John Rawls

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
Dennis Potter

Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
John Gay

Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow; But by-and-by will the deed and the plan Be judged by the motive that lieth below.
Lewis J. Bates

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.
Che Guevara

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Morris Raphael Cohen