“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
Jack London book The Star Rover
The Star Rover
Variant: Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel
“Men are cruel, but Man is kind.”
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Stray Birds (1916)
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Nick Lowe (1949) British singer
"Cruel to Be Kind" on the single Little Hitler / Cruel to Be Kind (1978) (Top of the Pops 1979) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JJ7oGHwMTI <br class="br">Context: I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down<br>Again and again and when I ask you to explain<br>You say, you've got to be...<br>Cruel to be kind in the right measure<br>Cruel to be kind it's a very good sign<br>Cruel to be kind means that I love you<br>Baby, you got to be cruel, you got to be cruel to be kind.
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Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“Weak men are apt to be cruel.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
http://books.google.com/books?id=K6lsEtMo1KMC&q=%22Weak+men+are+apt+to+be+cruel%22&pg=PA128#v=onepage
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/223/mode/2up <br class="br">On the Basis of Morality (1840) <br class="br">Source: The Basis of Morality
“One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967
Thomas Paine book The Age of Reason
1790s <br class="br">Source: "A Letter: Being an Answer to a Friend, on the publication of The Age of Reason" (12 May 1797), published in an 1852 edition of The Age of Reason, p. 205 http://books.google.com/books?id=2PgRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205
“Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle