I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.
So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
You ought to try being cruel to some people.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
We all struggle to find our place, and schools can be cruel to kids who aren't part of a pack.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness.
What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.
I used to watch 'The Waltons' and sob because my family was nothing like that. We had a cruel sense of humor in my family.
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible.
The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.
The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
Reparations - not just aid - should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and - together with other criminal states - for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.
It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.
In America, they are paranoid about ruining the reputations of people once they are dead and cannot answer back. They have this fascination which to me seems cruel and morbid. I do not want any part of it.
You feel a lot of rage when someone dies. I have a lot of faith in nature, but it can be cruel.
I often find myself worrying about celebrities. It's an entirely caring thing; it's not like the people who commission those photographs with cruel arrows to go on the covers of the celebrity magazines. The photographs show botched plastic surgery, raging eczema, weight gain and horrible clothes for maximum schadenfreude.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
Aristocracy is always cruel.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.
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 don't even have an army. So it's sort of like an all-around good, innocent place.
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.
