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Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims. – Morris Raphael Cohen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse... If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness follows, as a shadow follows its source. – The Dhammapada	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous constant. – Edna Ferber	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. – Henry Graham Greene	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. – Edmund Spenser	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Do not be so quick to judge or label, for one day the objects of ridicule may become what they are ever so used to being seen as. And when this happens it is too late, another soul has fallen to the cruel persecution of todays society and become what they are seen as instead of who they really are. A person, just like everyone else. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The human race is faced with a cruel choice work or daytime television. – Unknown	added by anonymous 14 years ago
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. – William Bradford	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death. – Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief. – James R. Lowell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Goodbye cruel world. – Gloria Shayne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A person gives the same things which he/she has preserved inside them. You cannot get love from cruel person similarly you can't be hurt from kind heart person. – nepal.light@gmail.com	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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