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Quotes About Brutality

MMA is like the Colosseum in Rome: the fans want to see violence.
~ Matt Riddle
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
~ Todd Solondz
Before you leave here, Sir, you're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.
~ Philip Caputo
In some of the pictures Mike was holding the decapitated head of a woman. It was the same woman who had been forced to fellate him in another photograph. Richard didn't know why these pictures excited him so much; he knew it was wrong for him to be aroused by such brutality, but he would often masturbate thinking about those pictures.
~ Philip Carlo
It's your hypocrisy that's offensive, not your brutality. You're the worst kind of fascists. The kind that think they're liberals.
~ Philip Kerr
It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.
~ Philip Larkin
Okres wiki?ski, który zapocz?tkowa? na Wyspach Brytyjskich przera?aj?co brutalny najazd, zako?czy? si? zastawem nie wykupionym przez skandynawskiego monarch?, który przekona? si?, ?e cen? nowoczesno?ci jest mi?dzy innymi niemo?no?? wyruszenia na wypraw? ?upiesk? dla zdobycia potrzebnej gotówki.
~ Philip Parker
Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.
~ Mona Eltahawy
My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
~ Vikas Swarup
They castrated him, cut his throat, sliced off one of his ears, and shot him two or three times.
~ Jon Krakauer
A soldier is a Yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
~ Jonathan Swift
in 1944 the Germans executed brutal, slaughtering attacks on the people of mountain Crete.
~ Adam Nicolson
Se uma doutrina que encerrasse mais inveracidade ao lado de idêntica brutalidade na propaganda, fosse oposta a social-democracia, triunfaria do mesmo modo, por mais áspera que fosse a luta.
~ Adolf Hitler
Brutality creates respect.
~ Adolph Hitler
Americans get fooled because we think we're trying to help the peasants down there in El Salvador, even though we're propping up that oppressive government, among the most brutal and militaristic in the world.
~ David Dellinger
From the Latin for "terrible," "cruel." Atrox, atrocis. When did the word come to take on such scale? Endless pits gouged in the earth. The Americans in the hamlet of My Lai, some of them shooting themselves in the feet to get out of it. The South Vietnamese with their tiger cages, their filing a man's teeth down to the gums.
~ Quan Barry
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
~ Queen Victoria
Do you want the long answer or the short?" is the customary divide between explanations versus outcomes in the retelling of events. Ferrante gives us both the long answer and the short, and in doing so adumbrates the mysterious beauty and brutality of personal experience.
~ Rachel Cusk
They - you know, when we walked in - when I walked in with the two white men that had carried me down - and they cursed me all the way down. They would ask me questions, and when I would try to answer, they would tell me to hush.
~ Fannie Lou Hamer
People want to see blood. They don't care anymore if you can box for 12 rounds. They don't appreciate the art of the good boxer.
~ Shannon Briggs
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
~ Al Sharpton
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism.
~ Ori Gersht
I've always had opinions on what was going on in my community. I always knew a lot of people listened to me, so why don't I speak on police brutality and things like that?
~ Too Short