Famous quotes containing the word cruel:
“Shes taen out her little pen-knife,
Fine flowers in the valley,
And twinned the sweet babe o its life,
And the green leaves they grow rarely.”
—Unknown. The Cruel Mother (l. 912)
“We must be cruel as well as compassionate: let us guard against becoming poorer than nature is!”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“Lifethat is: continually shedding something that wants to die. Lifethat is: being cruel and inexorable against everything about us that is growing old and weakand not only about us. Lifethat is, then: being without reverence for those who are dying, who are wretched, who are ancient? Constantly being a murderer?And yet old Moses said: Thou shalt not kill.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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