Cruelty

CRUELTY

I found this material from early 2014, probably from around April, that I scribbled onto a notebook, after having typed it on a little phone a month or two before. This does not resemble the original, but it was in my salad days, long before the true suffering.

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All paraphrased

Weakness makes one afraid. (Seneca)

Fear makes one superstitious. (Bertrand Russell)

Fear makes one cruel. (Bertrand Russell)

Cruelty has no motive behind it. (George Eliot)

Cruelty only needs opportunity. (George Eliot)

Cruelty is a tyrant tended to fearfully. (Thomas Fuller)

Cruelty is the main feature of savage peoples. (Harriet Jacobs)

Cruelty is the main feature of the self-righteous. (Bertrand Russell)

The lazy can be very cruel. (Renata Adler)

Humans can be very cruel. (Lupita Nyon’go)

Of all the forms of cruelty, intellectual cruelty is the worst. (G. K. Chesterton)

Cruelty is not a literary value. (Salman Rushdie)