a haunting reminder to all mankind of man's inexplicable cruelty towards his fellow man.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim

People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.

He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of those rollers. We're stunned.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

He had discovered that there was not just one God but many, and some were more than cruel — they were insane, and that changed all. Cruelty, after all, was understandable. With insanity, however, there was no arguing.