Brutality Quotes - Page 3

• If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

  Wilhelm Keitel

  War, East, Band

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dream, Travel, Home

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• But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

  Seamus Heaney

  Mean, Perception, Ira

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.421, Macmillan

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• I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, War, Hate

  Speech in Ottawa on January 10, 1946. "Eisenhower Speaks: Dwight D. Eisenhower in His Messages and Speeches". Book edited by Rudolph L. Treuenfels, 1948.

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• This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

  Albert Claude

  Cells, Technique, Might

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• Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

  Cesare Pavese

  Travel, Home, Strangers And Friends

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• By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

  Theodore Bikel

  Memories, Soul, Battle

  "Citizen-Soldier Handbook: 101 Ways Every American Can Fight Terrorism". Book by Michael Mandaville, 2009.

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• Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Delight, Life Happens, Pleasure

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• Industry without art is brutality.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Art Is, Industry

  Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy (2007). “Figures of Speech Or Figures of Thought?: The Traditional View of Art”, p.17, World Wisdom, Inc

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• In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

  Robertson Davies

  Tact

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

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• The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.

  Bertrand Russell

  Intelligent, Men, Emotional

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.441, Psychology Press

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

  Elie Wiesel

  Powerful, Love And Friendship, World

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.192, Knopf

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• Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

  Helmut Kohl

  Shadow, Felt

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• We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Slavery, Privilege

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

  Ariel Pink

  Country, Bully, Police

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• In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

  Azar Nafisi

  Islamic, Past, Years

  "Iran’s Women: Canaries in the Coal Mine" by Azar Nafisi, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.

  Edi Rama

  Intimidating

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• It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

  Joseph Heller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.336, Simon and Schuster

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  Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Opposites, Agony

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

  Adam Gopnik

  Scandal, Moral, Prison

  "The Caging of America" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 30, 2012.

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• In accordance with my conception of life, I have chosen not to bring children into the world. A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung out into the cosmic brutality without hesitation.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Children, Choices, Coins

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).

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• The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  Political, Age, Twins

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• Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.

  Robert Thurman

  Animal, Long, Violence

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Mar 30, 2017

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