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So, as the father pays back his old betrayer, he hurts the son without knowing why. He cannot understand his own cruelty toward him, or the acts which he is impelled to perform. Nor can the son, loving the father, understand either the father’s cruelty or his own sense of gratification received from the cruelties. He, with his remorseless conscience, welcomes the cruelties, for they make him feel as if he is doing penance, and for what?

For an offense that has been paid for in full. And each cruelty committed by the father hurts the father more, for he is bewildered by the unkindness of his own actions toward the son, toward whom his conscious feelings are indeed fraternal. And again—

—he knows this, and he knows that by enduring the small acts of cruelty he gains two ends.

One, he attempts to convince himself of something that is indeed a fact. He has nothing else to do penance for. By enduring the literally endless small cruelties he does needless penance, but at the same time he strikes back by causing the father hours of remorse. In all relationships these intertwining effects exert, many times, most unpleasant effects.

[...] He wanted to show that God was not responsible for the world’s cruelties. [...] He could not bear to see a cat play with a mouse, without blaming God who would permit such cruelty. [...]

[...] The full sweep and extent of the natural world , with all of its seeming ambiguities, cruelties and splendors, had to be accepted as more than a passive package delivered into man’s hand. [...]

[...] It was a time when such cruelty was indeed accepted, and sensitivity was hardly a way of life.

[...] For his own development he chose to make up, because of a past lack of sensitivity, because of a certain exhilaration felt in those days in cruelty, and because in those days his emotions held no sway, but what he considered cold reason led him on. [...]

[...] You cannot divorce philosophy from action, and the cruelty in slaughterhouses would not be perpetrated if it were not for distorted philosophies dealing with the survival of the fittest on the one hand, and the egotistical assumption that God gave man animals to do with as man wished.

A person who has been cruel in one life may choose to experience conditions in the next life in which he or she understands the meaning of cruelty, but this does not mean that such a person would then necessarily experience an entire lifetime as a victim.

[...] Jane must avoid any act of cruelty toward her. [...]

[...] You have a prejudiced god, who will for example slay the Egyptians on behalf of the Jews to retaliate against previous Egyptian cruelty. [...]

[...] You have a prejudiced god, who will, for example, slay the Egyptians and half of the Jews to retaliate against previous Egyptian cruelty. [...]

[...] I do not want to oversimplify here, and certainly I am nowhere justifying the cruelties the Jews encountered in Germany. [...]

[...] Certainly this suggests an almost unbearable cruelty, thrust upon nature’s framework. [...]

[...] The cruelty which he inflicted upon others during the period of the Inquisition was inflicted with the most pure of purposes. [...] More cruelties have been effected by principled men than unprincipled men would ever dream.

[...] He is now extremely kind to make up for past cruelties. [...]

[...] A male’s personality at that point would have held too many temptations as far as overaggressiveness and cruelty were concerned.

There was a certain quality in him that held a hidden cruelty, of which you were frightened. [...]

[...] The past contains for each of you some moments of joy, strength, creativity and splendor, as well as episodes of unhappiness, despair perhaps, turmoil and cruelty. [...]

[...] This does not mean that you were an orphan in that respect, nor did he leave out of cruelty to you. [...]

[...] The misuse of animals, man’s stupidity and cruelty, so it seems that the species is nearly insane.

It is as if you were reading a history book that was devoted only to the failures, cruelties and errors of the race, ignoring all of its accomplishments. [...]

[...] You will see that they see meaning, but you will not experience their meaning, and so their faces may seem empty to you, and you will look outward into the world and find no meaning in it, only desolation and cruelty. [...]

[...] Religion has been the cause of much prejudice and cruelty, but the bombs over Hiroshima were not caused by the Catholic Saint Teresa showering down any roses. [...]

When and if it is killed by its brothers, this is not an act of cruelty but an innate understanding that the creature can no longer operate physically without agony; a quite natural euthanasia is involved, in which the “patient” also acquiesces. [...]