Brutality Quotes - Page 8

• On every continent and in every epoch the peoples who have excelled in creating wealth have been the victims of some of society's greatest brutalities.

  George Gilder

  Creating, Wealth, Victim

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.139, Regnery Publishing

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• Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever before did a generation suffer such a moral setback after it had attained such intellectual heights.

  Stefan Zweig

  History, Intellectual, Suffering

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• Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.

  Dalai Lama

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Adventure

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• Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

  Jim Butcher

  Sea, Laughing, Enemy

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.324, Penguin

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• A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.

  Chaim Potok

  Men, Flames, Evil

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• In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of the hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul. I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is rot.

  Carson McCullers

  Fighting, Hands, People

  "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter".

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• She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

  Holly Black

  Ocean, Air, Electric Power

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• There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one’s vanity—the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Horse, Passion, Vanity

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.

  Jack D. Forbes

  Crazy, People, Humanity

  Jack D. Forbes (2011). “Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism”, p.17, Seven Stories Press

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• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Source: teentalkingcircles.org

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• Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

  Nelson Mandela

  Block, Flower, Bullets

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• The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

  Cal Thomas

  Problem, Communism, Humankind

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• In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism.

  Cornel West

  People, Needs, Alternatives

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• The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.

  Kevin Madden

  Numbers, Presidential, Together

  "WTF Did We Just Do, Romney Advisor Kevin Madden?". Interview with Marin Cogan, www.gq.com. November 9, 2012.

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• One of the popular views in the liberal circles of the West is that we are actually 'all victims of capitalism'. I disagree. This savage global capitalism is only one of the most terrible bi-products of the dominant Western culture of racism, greed, brutality and unbridled desire to control the world.

  Andre Vltchek

  Circles, Views, Racism

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You condition a vulnerable boy at puberty to become aroused by brutality. It's the violence, not the nudity. Frankly, I wouldn't mind if every teenage boy had a subscription to Playboy. They'd be looking at attractive naked female bodies while they masturbated, not eviscerated female bodies.

  Park Dietz

  Teenage, Boys, Mind

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The pervasive brutality in current fiction - the death, disease, dysfunction, depression, dismemberment, drug addiction, dementia, and dreary little dramas of domestic discord - is an obvious example of how language in exploitative, cynical or simply neurotic hands can add to the weariness, the darkness in the world.

  Tom Robbins

  Drama, Hands, Dysfunction

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

  Emily Saliers

  Use, Unjust, Vulnerable

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Police, Needs, Need A Change

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Color, People, Police

  Source: ninerswire.usatoday.com

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• The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is about more than police brutality. This is especially clear in the United States, given its transformation from a social state to a warfare state, from a state that once embraced a semblance of the social contract to one that no longer has a language for justice, community and solidarity - a state in which the bonds of fear and commodification have replaced the bonds of civic responsibility and democratic vision.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, People, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Support, Police

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• In March [1972] the unity of Pakistan depended on the suppression of the secessionists. But to carry it out with such brutality on the people instead of on those responsible wasn't necessary. That's not the way to convince poor people who've been told that with the Six Points there'll be no more hurricanes, no more floods, no more hunger. I spoke out against such methods more emphatically than anyone else, and when no one dared do so.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  People, Unity, Way

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.

  Danny Glover

  War, People, Police

  Source: progressive.org

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• Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.

  Hedwig Dohm

  Men, Locked Up, Conclusion

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