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Why does every deliberately cruel person describe themselves as the perfect example of necessary bluntness?
A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone
Sharpened by hate. Strengthened by love.
If you don't have malice in our heart, it doesn't come across harsh.
Conclusion 1:
Boredom= Flared tempers= hard words
There are no judgments so harsh as those of the erring, the inexperienced, and the young.
Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.
Written words were so much harsher than spoken.
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.
Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.
Life is cruel? Compared to what?
He who possesses greatness is cruel towards his secondary virtues and considerations.
Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance
Gentleness was sometimes perilously close to pity.
The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency - which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours - to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
The beautiful is always severe.
We are often our own harshest critics
You have to speak your mind, but without being cruel.
I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.
Whoever is new to power is always harsh.
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination,
You gotta be cruel to be kind.
Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.
There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.
Mild is the slow necessity of death;
The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,
Without a groan, almost without a fear,
Resigned in peace to the necessity;
Calm as a voyager to some distant land,
And full of wonder, full of hope as he.
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Though cruel now, it serves a deeper kindness, Wise to the larger call of growth. It invites us to humility And the painstaking work of acceptance So
Maudlin makes it difficult to enter the realm of gentleness
I must be cruel only to be kind
Hardness shatters; strength endures.
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.
We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.
Who can calculate the wounds inflicted, their depth and pain, by harsh and mean words spoken in anger? How pitiful a sight is a man who is strong in many ways but who loses all control of himself when some little thing, usually of no significant consequence, disturbs his equanimity.
Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.
When one is innocent of pain, of the havoc it can wreak, one is never cruel. Cruelty is born of pain, of a need to hurt in turn.
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.
Fear is cruel and mean.
Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
Hate is the wrath of the weak.
The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.
Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
In life, toughness and roughness go together.
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.
All the bullying instincts in her nature rose to the surface. It was not that she was basically unkind. It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies: and refuse her authority.
If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.
Rudeness is the weak man's limitation of strength.
Of all mankind's unpleasant habits, sheer and willful cruelty is the most base, the least forgivable and, when carried to its extreme, perhaps the most horrific.
Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.
Hatred - The anger of the weak.
Words can be terrible when the truth is unwelcome.
There is no doubt that we are a very cruel people,' Winston Churchill wrote home from the front. 'Severity always,' went the British motto, 'justice when possible.
They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness.
I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.
Close-up violence
it's like a tornado hitting you at 200 mph without warning. It takes all your preparation, fierceness to survive.
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.
Wickedness is its own punishment.
Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.
PROVERBS 15. d A soft answer turns away wrath, but e a harsh word stirs up anger.
A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders ...
Nobody minds coarseness, but one must draw the line at cruelty
-Lord Peter Wimsey
Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.
Even the cruel feel pain. And even the cruel can change.
The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.
Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.
When I was young, I learned to feel for the harshness under every soft appearance.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.
Bitter words normally evaporate with the moisture of breath, after a quarrel. In order to become permanent, they require transcribers, reporters, complicit black hearts.
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
The severest justice may not always be the best policy
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring
He who is not actively kind is cruel!
Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit.
Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, "That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it." And doing so.
We are ever brutal to those who love and serve us in silence, but the time may come when, for our cruelty, we shall be deserted by these best friends of ours.
...every harsh word spoken, every such act or even thought doesn't just disappear - it hangs around somewhere in totality and some day it boomerangs to haunt us.
Brokenness a result of bitterness.
Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth, but that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
For this present, hard
Is the fortune of the bard,
Born out of time;
All his accomplishment,
From Nature's utmost treasure spent,
Booteth not him.
Do not go gentle
You are very harsh.'
'I have seen the world.
I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.
Gentleness and peacefulness regulate our proceedings; theirs are dictated by fury. We employ reason, they accumulate faggots. They preach nothing but love, and breathe nothing but blood. Their words are humane, but their hearts are cruel.
Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.