Famous quotes containing the word cruel:
“Already the iron door of the north
Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.”
—Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (b. 1905)
“Instead of offering the Indians a chance to surrender, and to be taken peaceably, General Connor issued a very cruel order to his menTake no prisoners, fight to the death; nits breed lice.”
—State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“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)