Cruel Person

Famous quotes containing the words cruel and/or person:

    “Instead of offering the Indians a chance to surrender, and to be taken peaceably, General Connor issued a very cruel order to his men—’Take no prisoners, fight to the death; nits breed lice.’”
    —State of Utah, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Because a person is born the subject of a given state, you deny the sovereignty of the people? How about the child of Cuban slaves who is born a slave, is that an argument for slavery? The one is a fact as well as the other. Why then, if you use legal arguments in the one case, you don’t in the other?”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)