Quotes about Harshness

We judge others harshly in order to judge ourselves with approval.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations...

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.