Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.
We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all.
Perhaps the cruelest thing ever said of Hubert Humphrey was that he had the soul of a vice president.
Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.
Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.
The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.
One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally embraced the Super Bowl in January as the high-water mark of his year.