“Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.”
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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Context: I pick myself up off the ground to have you knock me back down
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Ernest Hemingway
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“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
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788–1860) German philosopher
Part III, Ch. VIII, 7, p. 223 https://archive.org/stream/basisofmorality00schoiala#page/223/mode/2up
On the Basis of Morality (1840)
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
1790s
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