Brutal Quotes

• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Courage, Hero, Bravery

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• There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

  Jean Paul

  Flower, Fall, Heaven

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• Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

  William Nicholson

  Teacher, Criminal Mind, Used In Criminal Minds

  "Shadowlands", 1993.

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• Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

  Adolf Hitler

  Father, Struggle, Mean

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943”

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• The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Cynical, Way

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• Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

  Franz Marc

  Spiritual, Blue, Two

  Susanna Partsch, Franz Marc (2001). “Marc”, p.26, Taschen

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• Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

  Caroline Corr

  Home, School, Night

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.

  Peter DeFazio

  War, Men, Tyrants

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• I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

  Ruby Wax

  Truth, People, Television

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• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Technology, Rights, Oppression

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• But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.

  Barney Frank

  Government, President, Firsts

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• We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

  Max Lerner

  Power, Culture, Live By

  Max Lerner (1939). “It is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy”, p.223, Transaction Publishers

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• Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements and a new wall.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Wall, Support, Terrorism

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• When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

  Boris Spassky

  Fighting, Style, Littles

  "The Chessmaster 7000 - Computer Personality FAQ", www.ign.com. October 17, 2003.

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• Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

  Bianca Jagger

  People, Community, Hussein

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• Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Men, World, Unlimited

  Mary Boykin Chesnut (2011). “Mary Chesnut's Diary”, p.187, Penguin

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• Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

  Enya

  Next Week, Wonderful, Presses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Bravery, Selfless

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

  James Thurber

  Differences, Apathy, Comedy

  The Observer, February 05, 1961.

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• For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

  Queen Victoria

  Women, Thinking, Wicked

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• The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Peace, Humanity

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.79, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

  Donald Trump

  Life, Fighting, Hard Times

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2014

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