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#1

“There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: humanity, misery, poverty

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#2

“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935

tags: cynicism, life, misery, weakness

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#3

“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.”
― Emil Cioran

tags: despair, history, misery, sadness, wrong

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#4

“I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.”
― William Shakespeare , Hamlet

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#5

“Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately was hurt. The same is true of Denna.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: cruelty, fantasy, insight, love, nature, personality

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#6

“In fact, if one person is unkind to an animal it is considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of people are unkind to animals, especially in the name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and, once large sums of money are at stake, will be defended to the last by otherwise intelligent people.”
― Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines

tags: cruelty, food-for-thought, vegan

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#7

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”
― Shannon l. Alder

tags: acceptance, adversity, best-friend, breakups, caring, child, cruelty, dad, dumped, endings, family, friendship, hurt, illness, love, mental-disorders, misunderstood-fights, mom, pain, rejection, sorrow, spouse, support, support-system, tough-times, trials, true-friendship

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#8

“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

tags: cruelty, oppression

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#9

“Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry, conflict, cruelty, cruetly, deceitful, disputes, disrespectful, fake-christianity, false-piety, games, hurting, hurting-me, ignoring, lashing-out, not-caring, not-communicating, not-listening, not-nice, painful, passive-agressive, playing-games, silence, stalking

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#10

“Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: being-right, compassion, cruelty, fake, fake-kindness, games, guessing, judging, kindness, lack-of-compassion, misunderstanding, no-communication, not-hearing, not-listening, not-understanding, piety, speculation

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#11

“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: angry-men, cheaters, convenience, cruelty, defaming, evilness, fake-christians, gossip, gossipers, human, hurt, hypocrisy, imperfect, jealous-women, judgers, liars, mistake, pain, players, rumors, sinners, sorow, stalkers, stupid-women, stupidity, unchristlike, unkind

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#12

“It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

tags: cruelty, jean-genet, thief, ugliness

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#13

“No, we aren't civilized, even in our business suits and high heels. People are as mean as ever, and as predictable. Underneath it all, we are not so different from what lurks in the wild, perhaps we're worse.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

tags: cruelty, mean, monsters, people

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#14

“The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

tags: cruelty

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#15

“The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: cruelty, evil, games, hateful, lack-of-empathy, painful, silence, sorrowful, uncaring, unchristlike, unholy, wrong

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#16

“Killing a cruelty is not a cruelty.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, cruel, cruelty, gentle, human, humans, humble, humbleness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, kill, killing, love, motivation, motivational, motivational-quotes, philosophy, polite, politeness, wisdom, wisdom-quotes

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#17

“For the vile human pigs in life; the sloppy, disheveled, uncaring dregs, the ungrateful, and especially for the vicious, negative emotional peasants — there will only continue to be the hard and painful lessons you so desperately need. The invisible hand will hold you in your wretched place until your last breath — unless you evolve. If you are cruel and ignorant the invisible fist will pound you into oblivion until you submit, humble yourself and soften your hard heart.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

tags: cruelty, desperation, disheveled, emotions, evolve, humbleness, ignorance, invisibility, learning, lessons, oblivion, pain, sloppy, softness, submission, uncaring, ungratefulness

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#18

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”
― Criss Jami

tags: aggravation, concealment, confusion, contemplation, dishonesty, hardcore, honesty, lie, lying, never, pain, provoke, secrecy, secrets, thinkers, thought, torture, truth

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#19

“There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked.”
― Mark Twain

tags: honesty

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#20

“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Micah

tags: enemies, honesty, truth

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#21

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”
― Warren Buffett

tags: honesty

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#22

“You want to take me to a movie?" I asked.
"Well, not really," he said. "What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I thought saying that might scare you off.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

tags: couples, honesty, love, relationships

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#23

“There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.”
― Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place

tags: honesty

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