Idle people are often bored and bored people unless they sleep a lot are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

As I get older all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food but at the same time we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid because freedom is on the march.

Cruelty is softened by fear not pity.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

The course of this conflict is not known yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear justice and cruelty have always been at war and we know that God is not neutral between them.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.