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QUOTES ON CRUELTY


People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY, The Brothers Karamazov

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