Brutality Quotes

204 quotes by 170 authors

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
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of… — Ida B. Wells
In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental… — Cornel West
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… — Cesare Pavese
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance… — Joseph Heller
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't… — Markus Zusak
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. — Warren W. Wiersbe
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. — Carl Jung
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions — Victor Hugo
You do not seek to kill me, Dumbledore?â€ called Voldemort, his scarlet eyes narrowed. â€œAbove such brutality, are you?â€ â€œWe both know that there are… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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… — Elizabeth Kostova
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead — Frank Herbert
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son. — Melina Marchetta
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… — Azar Nafisi
Truth has advocates who seek understanding," Richard said. "Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality... through… — Terry Goodkind
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping… — John Fowles
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to… — Jack D. Forbes
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could… — Gustave Flaubert
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. — Holly Black
Disease. Filth. Waste. Crime. Brutality. Whatâ€™s there to like? (Solin) Thereâ€™s brutality on Olympus. (Arik) True. But I hate humanity as much as I hate… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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