Quotes and Sayings About Brutality
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
-- A. J. Jacobs -
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
-- Adam Gopnik -
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
-- Al Sharpton -
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
-- Albert Claude -
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
-- Annie Lennox -
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ...
-- Antonin Artaud -
He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.
-- Azar Nafisi -
No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.
-- Bob Avakian -
The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.
-- Carl Jung -
Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image
-- Dean Koontz -
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
-- Dean Koontz -
Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.
-- Dorothy Garlock -
I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself.
-- Edgar Degas -
Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.
-- Edi Rama -
It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
-- Frank Herbert -
Further, democratic negotiators, or foreign negotiation specialists accepted to assist in the negotiations, may in a single stroke provide the dictators with the domestic and international legitimacy that they had been previously denied because of their seizure of the state, human rights violations, and brutalities. Without that desperately needed legitimacy, the dictators cannot continue to rule indefinitely.
-- Gene Sharp -
The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.
-- Geoffrey Wheatcroft -
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
-- Georg Brandes -
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
-- George Steiner -
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
-- George Stevens -
... from Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror ...
-- Golda Meir -
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
-- Greg Iles -
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.
-- Hedwig Dohm -
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
-- Helmut Kohl -
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.
-- Henry Rollins -
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab
-- Hisham Melhem
