Life may sometimes be cruel, it may harm you, may hurt your feelings. And in times of great suffering, laugh at you. And all you can do is smile back

cruelty is bound on our souls

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.