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Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.

Sometimes you have to be cruel... in order to be even crueler.

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

I can be a cruel person.

I suppose I walk that line between comedy and cruelty because I think one illuminates the other. We're all cruel, aren't we? We are all extreme in one way or another at times and that's what drama, since the Greeks, has dealt with.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.