Brutality Quotes

• The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Silence, Dangerous

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• The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

  Greg Iles

  Law, World, Human Nature

  Greg Iles (2009). “The Devil's Punchbowl: A Novel”, p.586, Simon and Schuster

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• We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

  Al Sharpton

  Police, Police Brutality

  "NYC Police Investigating Shooting Death by Police of Groom on His Wedding Day". www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2006.

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• Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mean, Justice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Brutality creates respect.

  Adolf Hitler

  Life

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Spirit

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Horse, Laughter, Character

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Opposites, Next, Hours

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• I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Crime, Accepting

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.373, Ballantine Books

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• He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Past, Crime, Seeds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1841, Library of Alexandria

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• We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.

  Wallace Shawn

  Country, Scary, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Naked, World, Glare

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• The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin of survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in large part on what happens here.

  Noam Chomsky

  College, People, Understanding

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “How the World Works”, p.73, Soft Skull Press

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

  Ric Ocasek

  Past, Mind, World

  Song: The Big Picture, Album: Quick Change World

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• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Art, Political

  "Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Hilary Term, 1870".

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• I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

  Jean Racine

  Virtue

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• Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Truth, Love Is, Hypocrisy

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2011). “On Being a Leader for God”, p.39, Baker Books

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• I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Overcoming

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• The worst crime committed by totalitarian mind-sets is that they force their citizens, including their victims, to become complicit in their crimes. Dancing with your jailer, participating in your own execution, that is an act of utmost brutality.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dancing, Mind, Citizens

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.76, Random House

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• We are being governed by the dregs of the nation - and their brutality is so capricious that no one can feel certain that he will be safe tomorrow.

  Iris Origo

  Leadership, Women, Safe

  Iris Origo (2011). “War in Val D'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944”, p.101, Allison & Busby

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• Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

  Dorothy Garlock

  Passion, Culture, Conflict

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• One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Laughter, Laughing, World

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

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• The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

  Richard J. Needham

  Inspiring, Honesty, Men

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• I have too many secrets. For all these years I've been a speaker for the dead, uncovering secrets and helping people to live in the light of truth. Now I no longer tell anyone half of what I know, because if I told the whole truth there would be fear, hatred, brutality, murder, war.

  Orson Scott Card

  Fear, War, Light

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.76, Macmillan

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