Leo Rosten Quote

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.


Captain Newman, M. D (1962), p. 328; this is also sometimes attributed to Leo Buscaglia, who often quoted it in his addresses and in his book Living, Loving and Learning (1982).


I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.