quotes 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. JacobsSource : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
-- Adam GopnikSource : "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.
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We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
-- Al SharptonSource : "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.
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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 -
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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 PinochetSource : Interview, 1989.
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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 NafisiSource : Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House
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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 -
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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 -
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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 KostovaSource : Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.85, Hachette UK
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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 SharpSource : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.13, Albert Einstein Institution
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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 BrandesSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 StevensSource : George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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... 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 ...
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The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.
-- Greg IlesSource : Greg Iles (2009). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.586, Simon and Schuster
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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 -
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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 -
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
-- Holly Black -
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
-- Ian Fleming -
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We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.
-- Iris OrigoSource : Iris Origo (2011). “War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944”, p.101, Allison & Busby
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
-- James A. GarfieldSource : Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.360, Best Books on
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
-- John Fowles -
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Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality.
-- John RuskinSource : Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc
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Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
-- Julia Ward Howe -
Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.
-- Kedar Joshi -
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.
-- Leopold Kohr -
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
-- Lisa See -
I think that in the sexual act, as delightful as it can be, the very physical part of it is, yes, a hammering away. So it has a certain brutality.
-- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson -
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
-- Markus ZusakSource : Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.550, RH Childrens Books
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
-- Markus ZusakSource : Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.193, Random House
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Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
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HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.
-- Mathieu Kassovitz -
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
-- Meryl Streep -
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I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn't stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That's all there is to it. Really, nothing more.
-- Oskar Schindler -
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
-- Patricia Moyes -
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.
-- Pola Negri -
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
-- Richard J. Needham -
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Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.
-- Robert Thurman -
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
-- Seamus Heaney -
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.
-- Thomas Bernhard -
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
-- Thrity Umrigar -
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Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
-- Victoria Woodhull -
There`s no end to the brutality of this regime, but it`s pretty clear this Kim Jong-un is not quite consolidated in power quite yet.
-- Christopher R. HillSource : Source: www.msnbc.com
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I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.
-- Richard Grossman -
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
-- Tatum O'Neal -
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Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?
-- Nobuyoshi Araki -
So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.
-- Oren MovermanSource : "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
-- Geoffrey S. FletcherSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
-- John Burns -