Best Cruel Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“When did we all become so fragile that mere metaphors could turn us all into fainting flowers? When did we stop being allowed to take the mickey, to poke fun at, and, yes, be a bit rude and cruel about things we don't like?”

“Legend' is a stylised film. The character I play is a complete egoist. He cannot tolerate anyone touching him or slapping him. Whenever anyone antagonises him, he becomes cruel. That's how the 'war' between the hero and him starts. It's a solid meaty break for me!”

“I now see that I never needed to be so mean or cruel.”

“I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel.”

“What aren't the pressures of being an actress? Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It has been my one and only dream but it's scary. There's a certain lifestyle and image one has to live up to or face the criticism which is quite harsh and cruel.”

“I think human relationships - the whole thing is cruel. It's very difficult.”

“I don't like how cruel humans can be.”

“People tend to throw up hands at Michael Jackson's multifarious bizarreness. But is it really so strange? The boy was forced to work by a cruel and physically abusive father starting at the age of 7.”

“You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.”

“Today's world is very cruel.”

“I am opposed to the idea of a child growing up with two gay parents. A child needs a mother and a father. I could not imagine my childhood without my mother. I also believe that it is cruel to take a baby away from its mother.”

“Some people are cruel and thoughtless, some people are definitely phobic, others are just stymied by the march of time, left behind by words and ways of thinking.”

“TV is a cruel mistress; you can't afford to fail in any way.”

“Unfortunately, soccer can be cruel sometime.”

“Being an actor can be a cruel experience because there is no cooling-down period. You can be involved in something that's incredibly intense, but then it's a wrap and you've finished and you go home. I find it difficult to complete a job and then return to reality and find my healthy place.”

“Football doesn't do sentiment well; it's a cruel profession.”

“I think us humans are just so cruel to each other. We just want to keep judging each other on our looks.”

“I think it is a universal problem that we are so often cruel to the people we love.”

“Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.”

“I think people throw the term 'sociopath' around a lot without knowing what it means - but people who don't understand that what they're doing is mean and wrong and cruel, they need to be made to understand that.”

“I know that one day all transgender individuals will have the freedom to be who they are, no matter what. And we won't have to face the cruel judgments of society. We can just live our lives and be treated and respected like everyone else.”

“Holocaust films will be made and should be made as long as we can't understand what makes people so cruel to each other.”

“When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.”

“I hope that dog lovers around the world will support the Cruelty Free International global campaign to end the use of dogs in outdated and cruel experiments.”

“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.”

“The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable.”

“We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.”

“It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.”

“I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.”

“Football is a wonderful game which can be cruel at times.”

“You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.”

“There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.”

“I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.”

“Fortunately, this is not something that we see a lot of. Very rarely do you see a dog in this terrible shape from starvation. People just aren't that cruel.”

“I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature.”

“In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.”

“You ought to try being cruel to some people.”

“I just love Steven Seagal for his pure - his perspective on what being a hero is: just a purely evil, cruel perspective.”

“But I knew - in the old days, if a song was a good song, I don't care if it was 'Yellow Submarine' or, you know, or 'The Times They Are a-Changin' or 'Don't Be Cruel', you knew it, you know? You heard that song, and you were talking about it, and you knew it.”

“We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.”

“I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.”

“We didn't ask for our wombs and ovaries, and this presumption that we have to use them because otherwise it's a waste, otherwise we're not emotional or not sensitive in some way, it's a really cruel diagnosis of a woman's character.”

“When I went into this, I knew that public life was going to be a very weird, fantastic and cruel sort of situation to be in. I think I'm ready for any lumps to come.”

“Everyone's constantly scrambling around trying to justify their own cruel behavior, trying to come up with psychological tricks to make themselves not feel bad.”

“L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.”

“I can be a cruel person.”

“You have within you many strong and cruel enemies to overcome. You must know that there are still a thousand ties which you must break. No one can tell you what they are; only you can tell by looking at yourself and into your heart.”

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

“The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.”

“Kids are cruel.”

“I feel the pain of people who suffer in my own neurons and sometimes cannot even watch TV. It is impossible not to be worried. But I trust that however cruel treatment they receive, Hizmet sympathizers will continue to respect to the law and will remain peaceful.”

“If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.”

“People were so cruel because of the way I existed.”

“Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.”

“When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel - it's vulgar.”

“I think women can be as cruel as men, and men as tender as women, and vice versa.”

“Showbiz can be cruel.”

“I like laughing about cruel things because life is cruel.”

“Time can be very good or very cruel to films.”

“Football's cruel sometimes.”

“Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.”

“I think terrorism is a cruel waste of life.”

“Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there's only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.”

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

“We used tough methods to show what's wrong and what's right. Against those who didn't understand, we led a tough and even cruel struggle.”

“When someone is mean to a dog, they are being cruel to a living being.”

“High school was interesting. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. But everyone is trying to find their footing, and school can be a tough environment. Kids can be cruel to each other. It's quite unforgiving at times.”

“I've always deplored bad heterosexual values that dictate the minute a marriage is over the former partners no longer speak to each other; only straights could be so cruel and inhuman as to reject totally the person with whom they've shared their life for 20 or 30 years.”

“Torture and other forms of cruel or humiliating treatment are an affront to humanity, and the physical and psychological scars can last a lifetime.”

“Kids are very cruel to each other.”

“I had a lovely, feral, free childhood - out and then come back when you're hungry or it gets too dark. I feel slightly cruel that I'm not offering my children the same.”

“It is a cruel game at times.”

“We all have excuses. We could all take all of the things that have happened to us over the course of our lives and use them as excuses for being cruel to others.”

“The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.”

“I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence.”

“If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.”

“China once again disgusts the world, portraying the image of a cruel, perverted people devoid of any feelings towards animals.”

“If I look at history, it seems that most wars and most cruel things have been done by men and not by women.”

“It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.”

“The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.”

“Professional wrestling is a beautiful yet cruel mistress. She will treat you well and treat you horribly, but outside of my family, it is my one true love.”

“Acting can be a very cruel mistress. It's not a meritocracy. In other walks of life, by being good at what you do, you can achieve success. That isn't always the case in this business. Every actor knows that.”

“It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.”

“I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.”

“We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.”

“I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cruel.”

“I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.”

“There are cruel, terrible things that happen in this world that are even more traumatizing than the existence of Jeff Sessions. Yes, it can be painful to read about them - but we can never hope to change what we cannot first recognize.”

“The law is cruel.”

“I'm a happy person. When a happy person makes a cruel movie, it becomes funny.”

“Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.”

“The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.”

“Anyone who's been a teenager, or raised one, knows growing up is hard. Kids can be cruel to their peers, and many young people go through tough times and experience low moments.”

“There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.”

“I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.”

“The world can be very cruel.”

“A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.”

“I have been doing a lot of romantic movies, so such roles don't excite me much now. I would like to play an out-and-out, really cruel villain once. My character in 'Da Thadiya' had such a streak, but I want a full length villainous role. It is a different kind of excitement.”

“I think it's pretty cruel to give a kid a name that others are going to have. I think it's very important to have a unique name within any group you're likely to be in.”

“Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.”