Best Brutal Quotations
417 Brutal quotes by 368 unique authors
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For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to…
— Queen Victoria
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Let me tell you something: I salute womanhood worldwide, because women are exceptionally tough for enduring the misery of childbirth. I've cleaned hogs and gutted…
— Phil Robertson
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Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's…
— Alan Sugar
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Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of human condition. No, they proclaimed morality was an imperative of all…
— Steven Erikson
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I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war - the brutal corrupting viciousness of…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Hatred as an element of the struggle; a relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir…
— Che Guevara
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I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with…
— Shirley Jackson
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead…
— Rudolf Rocker
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again.…
— Kim Ki-duk
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it…
— Beryl Markham
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Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or…
— William H. Gass
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Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
— Ari Fleischer
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most,…
— William Styron
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There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
— Ti-Grace Atkinson
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A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against…
— Alfred Binet
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When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.
— Susie Bright
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On a day when all Americans, regardless of party affiliation, are celebrating the growth of freedom and honoring the sacrifices of American and Iraqi troops…
— Ken Mehlman
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Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
— Dan Savage
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Embrace nature's brutal perfection.
— Boyd Rice
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing.…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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If you think that you can stop crime by catching us, locking us up, punishing us by brutal treatment, hanging or electrocuting us, sterilizing or…
— Carl Panzram
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If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in…
— Henry W. Kendall
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India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first…
— Stafford Cripps
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I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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