Cruel

Famous quotes containing the word cruel:

“It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

“...they would not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and their cruel slavery.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 6:9.

“It is a cruel atmosphere down there, cruel and ruthless.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)