Brutality Quotes - Page 9

• I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure out there's got to be some better way than killing human beings who are just trying to farm a field.

  Haskell Wexler

  War, People, Trying

  "Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell Wexler". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Use

  "Romney Remarks for Cuban Independence Day". www.capitolhillcubans.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in The Leopard, in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. Phantom has less blood.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Regret, Blood

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

  Annie Lennox

  Compassion, Empathy, Capacity

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• I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

  Rodney King

  Children, Healing, Police

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

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• In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same as him. He's the most sympathetic character in the movie. So, the naïve cop ends up murdering this Black kid and tries to cover up the evidence. It sort of justifies police brutality and the planting of evidence which is what happened in the O.J. Simpson case.

  Ishmael Reed

  Character, Kids, Police

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  Victor Hugo

  Race, Progress, Revolution

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Sometimes things need to get really bad before they can ever get better. Really bad can become untenable if enough people get sick of it. That was a big thing about why I ended up taking part in that rally [against police brutality] and ended up voicing my opinion and declaring what side I was standing on.

  Quentin Tarantino

  People, Sick, Police

  "Q&A: Tarantino on the battles behind 'The Hateful Eight'". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 22, 2015.

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• The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Taken, America, Evil

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.110, Beacon Press

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• An act of violence against any innocent person eludes moral justification, disgraces the millions of Americans and people throughout the world who have united in peaceful protest against police brutality, and dishonors our proud inheritance of nonviolent resistance.

  Benjamin Crump

  Innocent Person, People, Police

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (RTSC): A Conversation With Civil Rights Attorney BBenjamin Crump". Interview with Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 24, 2015.

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• I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a conversation about power and sexuality and brutality. And really all the issues that are in that world, in that space, come down to one word, which is "masculinity.

  Oren Moverman

  Mean, Issues, Space

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

  Oren Moverman

  Police, Problem, Corruption

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Two, Stories, Slavery

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• I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.

  Isadora Duncan

  Crush, Children, Joy

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Survivor, Violence, Bitterness

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story”, p.225, Beacon Press

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• I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Children, Thinking, Luck

  Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2003). “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple”, p.102, Nan A. Talese

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• I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

  Paul Newman

  Luck, Want, Benevolence

  Paul Newman, A.E. Hotchner (2003). “Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good: The Madcap Business Adventure by the Truly Oddest Couple”, p.102, Nan A. Talese

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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

  Leopold Kohr

  War, World, Problem

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• ... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret.

  Robert Parry

  Military, War, Mean

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• Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we'll be scared of them, it means they have won. But that doesn't mean we can have a devil-may-care attitude toward this threat. We must do everything to stop these threats and not give the terrorists a single chance to demonstrate their brutality and hatred of mankind.

  Vladimir Putin

  Attitude, Mean, Gay

  "Discrimination? We give prizes to gays, insists Russia’s Putin" by Lynn Berry, www.nbcnews.com. September 4, 2013.

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• For eighteen centuries every engine of destruction that human science, philosophy, wit, reasoning or brutality could bring to bear against a book has been brought to bear against that book to stamp it out of the world, but it has a mightier hold on the world today than ever before. If that were man's book it would have been annihilated and forgotten hundreds of years ago.

  R. A. Torrey

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Charles Leach, R. A. Torrey “Our Bible: How We Got It and Ten Reasons Why I Believe the Bible is the Word of God”, Moody Publishers

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• Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Men

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

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• At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our life, which is inaccessable to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.

  Thomas Merton

  God, Spiritual, Truth

  Thomas Merton (2012). “On Christian Contemplation”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

  Michael Pollan

  Dog, Intelligent, Compassion

  "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.

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