Brutal Quotes
417 Brutal quotes by 368 unique authors
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You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.
— David Spade
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
— Benjamin Spock
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When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
— Donald Trump
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I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy…
— Lech Walesa
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
— Robert Winston
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Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
— Paul Wolfowitz
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America's growth historically has been fueled mostly by investment, education, productivity, innovation and immigration. The one thing that doesn't seem to have anything to do…
— Fareed Zakaria
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under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere…
— Jack Kerouac
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The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on…
— Dorothy Allison
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The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New…
— Georges Simenon
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Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
— William Nicholson
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How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and…
— Winston Churchill
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you…
— Ann Brashares
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken…
— Alice Hoffman
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People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson.
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.
— Rachel Vincent
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We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and…
— Anne Rice
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We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we…
— Jane Yolen
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All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we…
— John Grisham
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...the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who…
— Marcus Luttrell
Who Wrote These Brutal Quotes
368 authors contributed a total of 417 Brutal Quotes, led by these top contributors: