"We imagined that the mildness of our government……" — Henry Knox

More Brutal Quotes

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• I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at… — Julianna Baggott
• Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so… — Annie Besant
• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. — Theodor Adorno
• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it… — Kate Bosworth
• State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should… — Noam Chomsky
• Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. — Hillary Clinton
• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married… — Susan B. Anthony
• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown… — Benjamin Disraeli
• Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of… — Alfred Binet
• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre… — Woodrow Wilson
• The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked.… — Kofi Annan

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