Brutality Quotes
204 quotes by 170 authors
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In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they…
— Carson McCullers
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A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the…
— Chaim Potok
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Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her…
— Jim Butcher
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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…
— A. J. Jacobs
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The people look forbidding, solemn, marked by that impossible ideal, Communism, which, like Christianity, seemed to demand too much of humanity and, falling into the…
— John Mortimer
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Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality…
— Boyd Rice
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of…
— Lisa See
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I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning…
— Isadora Duncan
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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…
— Ian Fleming
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The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.
— Markus Zusak
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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…
— Ayn Rand
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Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of…
— Dean Koontz
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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.
— Elie Wiesel
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Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for…
— Maya Angelou
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We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless…
— Khaled Hosseini
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
— John Fowles
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For love of domination we must substitute equality; for love of victory we must substitute justice; for brutality we must substitute intelligence; for competition we…
— Bertrand Russell
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To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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