Women love to be called cruel even when they are kindest.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty I will answer that war is war and not popularity seeking.

War is cruelty and none can make it gentle.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over.

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong truth and error justice and injustice cruelty and mercy.

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty the truth has to do with mercy.