I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Too much virtue can be criminal.

— Jean Racine

I can tell you countless instances of this country's history of brutality, of inequity, of heartlessness. But if I do that without also talking…

— Wes Moore

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…

— 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

We need tremendous energy to bring about a psychological change in ourselves as human beings, because we have lived far too long in a…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

— Ric Ocasek

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a…

— L. Ron Hubbard

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could…

— Bryan Fischer

“The hunger for power has made them cruel They shed humanity and shed every rule They bow to the devil, deny what is just…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

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…

— Ian Fleming

What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.

— Millicent Fawcett