A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
An angry father is most cruel towards himself.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.