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Quotes About Brutality

I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.
~ Stefan Zweig
For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.
~ Stefan Zweig
fingernails were torn out with pliers.
~ Stephan Talty
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Those who tried to escape received the customary punishment, as Nicholson harrowingly described: After they had stripped the sufferer naked, they inserted the iron pointed stake into the lower termination of the vertebrae, and thence forced it up near his back bone, until it appeared between the shoulders, avoiding the vital parts. The stake was then raised in the air and the poor sufferer exposed to the view of the other slaves, writhing in…insupportable agony.
~ Michael B. Oren
The African patted the horse's neck and spoke to it in a velvet language, and Hanukkah caught sight of the broad ax slung across the giant's back and began to regret his decision to call attention to himself, because kindness to horses was often accompanied in soldiers by an inclination, when it came to men, to brutality
~ Michael Chabon
Wu was lying on his back, his body already torn open by the big claw, and the raptor was jerking its head, tugging at Wu's intestines even though Wu was still alive, still feebly reaching up with his hands to push the big head away, he was being eaten while he was still alive
~ Michael Crichton
The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists.
~ Maya Angelou
Every woman adores a fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.
~ Sylvia Plath
Most people are quite dense. They like little white houses with big stained-glass churches and prefer to do their killing with looks and words behind one another's backs. He paused. Welcome to my house. No secrets allowed. Here we all do our killing with guns and axes and knives. It's more bloody than what most people are accustomed to, yes, but it's far less brutal.
~ Ted Dekker
Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.
~ Julia Ward Howe
hubiera querido poder estar también dentro del hormiguero para ver cómo las hormigas tiraban del gusano metiéndole las pinzas en los ojos y en la boca y tirando con todas sus fuerzas hasta meterlo del todo, hasta llevárselo a las profundidades y matarlo y comérselo.
~ Julio Cortazar
They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery / stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors / to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys / whose bodies / swelled purple and black into twice the original size / and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby / and then / they said this was brilliant
~ June Jordan
Some say," Auntabelle said, "that it was because of the Roman's brutality and the Roman Emperors' cruelty, especially to the Christians, who were slaughtered in masses at this very place for the entertainment of the Roman citizens, that Rome fell." - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Sometimes history can be brutal" - Auntabelle, Amazon Lee and the Ancient Undead of Rome by Kira G. and Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Normal: lacking in taste, compassion, understanding, kindness, and ordinary human decency.
~ Frank Portman
Tanaghrisson stepped up to where Jumonville lay. "Tu n'es pas encore mort, mon père," he said; Thou art not yet dead, my father. He raised his hatchet and sank it in the ensign's head, striking until he had shattered the cranium. Then he reached into the skull, pulled out a handful of viscous tissue, and washed his hands in Jumonville's brain.
~ Fred Anderson
Man is the cruelest animal.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Fighting was not about glory, but about men lying on the ground screaming and thrashing, tangled in their own viscera
~ Brandon Sanderson
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
~ brecht bertolt ii
In a modern warfare, you will die like a dog for no good reason
~ Hemingway Ernest
the high brutality of good intentions ...
~ Henry James