The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
If our countries had war the one with the other, that was no cause that he should put us to death; with which they were out of heart that their cruel pretense failed them. For which God be forever-more praised.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.
To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult.
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