Cruelty


The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey, #1)
Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)
Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
The Kitchen House
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
Flowers for Algernon
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Nickel Boys
I, Claudia
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
Goodnight, Boy
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Being Fishkill
The Cruel Prince by Holly BlackCruel King by Rina KentCruel Crown by Victoria AveyardVelvet Cruelty by Eve DangerfieldCruel Queen by T.L.  Smith
Cruel Cruelty
285 books — 25 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyMadame Bovary by Gustave FlaubertWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Unhappy Marriages
510 books — 312 voters
The Sociopath Next Door by Martha StoutThe Psychopath Test by Jon RonsonThe Lucifer Effect by Philip G. ZimbardoShadow Play by William KlaberMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Explore the Shadows (of Human Nature)
142 books — 23 voters


Christopher Hitchens
We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.
Christopher Hitchens

Haruki Murakami
I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a w ...more
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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