Brutality Quotes

I have pushed virtue to outright 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.

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.

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

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

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.

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.

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.

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

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.

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.

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

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.

Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But don’t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul.

I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

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?

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

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.

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon our fellow Americans and thank our lucky stars we don't have to contend with it.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.

My time in Moscowmade a man of memade me an artistthere was a reality and a brutality of life that I think was very important, as a young American, for me to see.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.