Brutality Quotes

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.

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.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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.

Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography?

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab

Brutality creates respect.

What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

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.

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.

To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

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.

Industry without art is brutality.

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

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.

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.

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.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

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.

Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

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.

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.

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

[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.