Atoms Quote by Ezra Pound

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

— Patricia Moyes

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

— Christina Aguilera

“The English language is shot through with idioms and expressions which allude to violence without inciting it, most of which pass without notice unless…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone…

— Ludwig von Mises

“A method involving apparent obscurity is surely justified when it is the clearest, the simplest, the only method possible of saying in full what…

— Richard Hughes

What I have set down in a moment of ardour I must then critically examine. Sometimes I must do myself violence before I can…

— Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side…

— Adolf Hitler

“We must categorize and simplify in order to comprehend. But the reduction of complexity entails a great danger, since the line between enlightening epitome…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“He defended respectability with violence and exaggeration.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“When we let go of the words that are meant to divide us, even the harshest disagreement can become a space of clarity, rather…

— Marc Kandalaft

Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That…

— William Shakespeare