Brutal Quote by Mary Boykin Chesnut Download Open image “Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world” — Mary Boykin Chesnut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutal Men Unlimited World
Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying. — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men — George Orwell Copy Share Image
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“We try our soldiers to see if they are hot enough before we enlist them. If, when water is thrown on them they do… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“I think incompatibility of temper began when it was made plain to us that we get all the opprobrium of slavery while they, with… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone. — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men! — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
“Old Colonel Chesnut came for us. When the train stopped, Quashie, shiny black, was seen on his box, as glossy and perfect in his… — Mary Boykin Chesnut Copy Share Image
In 2001, we were told that the war in Afghanistan was a feminist mission. The marines were liberating Afghan women from the Taliban. Can… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Hitler recruited around him homosexuals to make up his Stormtroopers, they were his enforcers, they were his thugs. And Hitler discovered that he could… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of… — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
No matter how well-born, how intelligent, how highly educated, how virtuous, how rich, how refined, the women of to-day constitutea political class below that… — Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi Copy Share Image
I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other… — Adam Duritz Copy Share Image
I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. — Minka Kelly Copy Share Image
When my friends have been heartbroken, I give them a shoulder to cry on and some brutal advice. — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
I do have one very brutal writing ritual. If I'm working in the morning, I don't allow myself a cup of tea until I've… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
