Quotes About Brutality

swaths of humanity. That just below the surface of human kindness was a seething pool of unfathomable ruthlessness and cruelty, unequaled in the animal kingdom.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

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

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

The notion of the 'Black male predator' is so historically rooted in the American consciousness that we have come to accept the brutalization and murder of citizens by the police as an acceptable method of law enforcement. The assumption is that Black men are the bad guys, the police are the good guys, and if the police killed someone it must have been for a good reason. They must have done something .

When I reached this policeman in the street, he hit me over the head with his club...I wanted to get protection, but instead the cops hit me...I was afraid to run, because I knew if I did they would hit me again. Harry Reed's affidavit is dated August 22, 1900. And little has changed in a century.

Kill me?' The Bloody-Nine laughed louder than ever. 'I do the killing, fool!

The Last Toast I drink to our demolished hose, to all this wickedness, to you, our loneliness together, I raise my glass - And to the dead-cold eyes, the lie that has betrayed us, the coarse, brutal world, the fact that God has not saved us. 1934

I drink to our ruined house, to the dolor of my life, to our loneliness together; and to you I raise my glass, to lying lips that have betrayed us, to dead-cold pitiless eyes, and to the hard realities; that the world is brutal and coarse, that God, in fact, has not saved us.

We are often hurt by a brutality and sluggish conceptions of the vulgar; not considering that some there must be, to be hewers of wood and drawers of water, and that cultivated genius, or even any great refinement and delicacy in their moral feelings, would be a real misfortune to them.

Before the eyes of the SA unit that had not yet marched off, Beutler crawled the last stretch without help. Not on his knees, but rather, perhaps because he'd been kicked, sideways so that his face was turned up. And now as the man crept past him, Bunsen, looking down, noticed what was special about the face. It was laughing. The recaptured prisoner lay there in his bloody smock, with blood in his ears, and his large white teeth showing, and he seemed to be writhing in silent laughter.

it is true that both the Red Army and the secret police traditionally gave vodka to soldiers who were being asked to do dirty work: empty bottles are almost always found inside mass graves.

Ce n'est pas à lui qu'elle se soumet, c'est à une loi indiscutable, universelle, celle d'une sauvagerie masculine qu'un jour ou l'autre il lui aurait bien fallu subir. Que cette loi soit brutale et sale, c'est ainsi.

Ella no se somete a él, sino a una ley indiscutible, universal, la de la brutalidad masculina que, de todas todas, tarde o temprano, le habría tocado sufrir. Que la ley en cuestión sea feroz y sucia, es así y no hay vuelta de hoja.

We run into police brutality often and it's always a problem that we always have to protest and speak out.

We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.

They did attack our herds: you could have seen a woman pull a calf to pieces as it bellowed alive in her bare hands!

Em todos os cantos os soldados topavam com japoneses imobilizados por cordas, sendo brutalmente espancados

The downfall of aristocratic influence has created an atmosphere of brutality and indifference towards the arts, such that a refined sensibility has nowhere to take refuge.

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

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

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.