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Quotes About Brutality

Los restantes que he asesinado o torturado solo han sido víctimas de mi odio brutal, en ningún caso de mi sadismo; para eso se requiere amor
~ Ladislav Klíma
Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth
~ Cassandra Clare
He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa. "What a beautiful thing to hear.
~ Cassandra Clare
vincitori non ebbero pietà neppure dei militari fascisti ricoverati negli ospedali dopo essere rimasti feriti in azioni precedenti il 25 aprile. All'Ospedale militare vennero strappati dai letti e subito uccisi sette paracadutisti, uno dei quali aveva un braccio amputato.
~ Giampaolo Pansa
But what is worse than all," observed the English traveler Isaac Weld, "these wretches in their combat endeavor to their utmost to tear out each other's testicles."31
~ Gordon S. Wood
I turned to the circle of brutal and malignant faces peering at me through the semi-darkness. A sudden and deep sympathy welled up in me. I remembered the Cockney's way of putting it. How God must have hated them that they should be tortured so!
~ Jack London
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel
~ Jack London
He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death.
~ Jack London
in the short run brutality always wins; it takes longer for amity to prevail.
~ James A. Michener
Out of this incredible brutality, we get the myth of the happy darky and Gone With the Wind. And the North Americans appear to believe these legends, which they have created and which absolutely nothing in reality corroborates, until today. And when these legends are attacked, as is happening now—all over a globe which has never been and never will be White—my countrymen become childishly vindictive and unutterably dangerous. The
~ James Baldwin
The brutality with which Negroes are treated in this country simply cannot be overstated, however unwilling white men may be to hear it. In
~ James Baldwin
That all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs.
~ James Baldwin
all men were like this, their thoughts rose no higher, and they lived only to gratify on the bodies of women their brutal and humiliating needs. One
~ James Baldwin
The brutality with which Negroes are treated in this country simply cannot be overstated, however unwilling white men may be to hear it.
~ James Baldwin
Matsura dribbled blood on the table. Ace threw a head shot. Matsura screamed. Gold bridgework flew.
~ James Ellroy
We all have the same problem as human beings. And it's something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it's racial. It's brutality. It's people breaking the law. It's the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that's our sin.
~ Benjamin Watson
Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.
~ Lauren Shuler Donner
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
~ Meryl Streep
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
~ Jack London
On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces.
~ Buffalo Bill
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
~ Delmore Schwartz
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
He loathed the cruelty and brutality of its leaders, who had "gained power more by bribery, backstabbing, toadyism, and favoritism than by knowledge and competence.
~ Tennent H. Bagley