Brutality Quotes
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People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.
— Richard J. Needham
In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.
— Robertson Davies
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.
— Joni Mitchell
But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration for it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!
— Emily Bronte
The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality
— Bakunin
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn't respond us, but drones came to our rescue.
— M.F. Moonzajer
For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.
— Albert Einstein
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.
— Paul Newman
I know of no book which has been a source of
brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,
that can compare with the Bible — James Paget
brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private,
that can compare with the Bible — James Paget
What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart.
— Millicent Fawcett
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
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
— George Steiner
Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.
— Dorothy Garlock
Never trust an armed police officer.
— Steven Magee
All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.
— Ian Fleming
Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.
— Bryant McGill
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
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
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
Even victims of atrocious brutality and intractable pain may retain a longing, sometimes even a zest, for life.
— Carl Sagan
Maybe they knew their own gift of imagination colored too rosily the poverty and brutality of their lives and made them able to endure it.
— Betty Smith
While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
— Steven Magee
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.
— Helmut Kohl
It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality.
— Eckhart Tolle
Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public
— Kenneth Eade
The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
— Richard J. Needham
Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote.
— Victoria Woodhull
There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn't call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn't think you could.
— Dorothy B. Hughes
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
— Peter Watts
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
— Michael Kazin
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened.
— Thrity Umrigar
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.
— Holly Black
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda
through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war. — Kenneth Kaunda
It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.
— M.F. Moonzajer
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.
— Mikhail Bakunin
I started my car and put Chase out of my mind as I nosed out into the merry brutality of Friday-night traffic in Miami.
— Jeff Lindsay
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab
— Hisham Melhem
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color.
— Howard Zinn
The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.
— Rebecca Solnit
I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
— Ingmar Bergman
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.
Tell them to teach them that when they call you nigger to make a rhyme with trigger it makes the gun backfire
— Ralph Ellison
Corrupt ideas have miserable little fanatics who attempt to enforce their beliefs through intimidation and brutality ... through faith.
— Terry Goodkind
Let me strip you piece by piece, exactly how you like it. Let me watch you shine through your brutal revelation.
— Dianna Hardy
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.
— Ric Ocasek
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
— Jaggi Vasudev
Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
— Christopher Dutton
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
— Josh Hutcherson
It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments,
— Malcolm Gladwell
But it was a routine traffic stop."
"Lots of cops get blown away during routine traffic stops — Kenneth Eade
"Lots of cops get blown away during routine traffic stops — Kenneth Eade
Nothing but brutality will get through to these people. Some evils should not be given a second chance.
— Bella Forrest
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that.
— Amandla Stenberg
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
— Charles Krauthammer
We're not anti-police ... we're anti-police brutality.
— Al Sharpton
The brutality of war could damage even the best of men.
— Tracy Anne Warren
This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up — Tupac Shakur
Humans, so easily electrified by the snap, crackle, pop of blood, brutality, and butchery.
— Artemis Crow
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force.
— Ayn Rand
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
— Martin Luther King Jr.
My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
— Leonard Mlodinow
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.
— Annie Lennox
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt ... Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.
— Cesar Chavez
We're all affected by life's random outbreaks of beauty and brutality
— Megan McCafferty
There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality ... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
— George Stevens
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
— Khaled Hosseini
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
— Benjamin Spock
They inhabited a lost world of splendour and brutality, a world dominated by religious change, in which there were few saints.
— Alison Weir
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.
— Patricia Moyes
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
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
Industry without art is brutality.
— Ananda Coomaraswamy