Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.