"I have pushed virtue to outright brutality." — Jean Racine

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir… — Theodore Bikel
• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to… — Georg Brandes
• Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism,… — Aberjhani
• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre… — Woodrow Wilson
• Brutality creates respect. — Adolf Hitler
• We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and… — Cesar Chavez
• I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something… — Malcolm X
• Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once… — Dalai Lama
• No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until… — Swami Vivekananda
• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and… — Florence Nightingale
• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. — Richard J. Needham
• The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. — Richard J. Needham

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