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Quotes About Brutality

The sheer brutality of it ate at him. He hated war. He hated the Germans for starting it. For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way? As far as Pino was concerned, wars were about murder and thievery. One army killed to steal the hill; then another killed to steal it back.
~ Unknown
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
~ Warren Wiersbe
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race-that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.
~ Markus Zusak
Mutantlar insanlar? öldürür, cesedi yerde çürümeye b?rak?p giderler. Yamyamlarsa öldürür ve ölünün etiyle kendi canlar?n? beslerler.
~ Marlo Morgan
Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The woman crawled on the earth, took hold of his boot and pleaded for mercy. But the soldier took the boy and hit him with his head against the wall, once, twice, smashed him against the wall.
~ Martin Gilbert
The Negro was willing to risk martyrdom in order to move and stir the social conscience of his community and the nation… he would force his oppressor to commit his brutality openly, with the rest of the world looking on…. Nonviolent resistance paralyzed and confused the power structures against which it was directed.
~ Unknown
la guerra era una forma derrochadora y brutal de combatir la presión demográfica. Pero a falta de anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar bajo control médico, la alternativa era también derrochadora y brutal: subalimentación, hambre, enfermedades y una vida breve, pobre y mezquina para todo el mundo.
~ Marvin Harris
And some of the modern admirers of the gentle philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius would be less admiring if they reflected on the brutality of his suppression of the Germans, proudly illustrated in the scenes of battle that circle their way up his commemorative column that still stands in the centre of Rome; though less famous, it was clearly intended to rival Trajan's and was carefully built just a little taller (see plate 10). 70.
~ Mary Beard
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is the master because he could knock her down with perfect ease, and break her bones with much greater facility than she could his. And yet, out of man's brute nature, out of that most ignoble in himself, has come his loudest assumption of superiority, his longest and lowest tyranny.
~ Unknown
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississippi to create social change--and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it--at which point they can become human too
~ Bayard Rustin
Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.
~ Mason Cooley
It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.
~ Unknown
Some Americans responded brutally to such docility: in two separate incidents on 14 July, an officer and an NCO of the U.S. 45th Division murdered large groups of Italians in cold blood. One, Sgt. Horace West, who killed thirty-seven with a Thompson submachine gun, was convicted by a court-martial, but later granted clemency. The other, Capt. John Compton, assembled a firing squad which massacred thirty-six Italian prisoners.
~ Max Hastings
It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless … It discards all the parameters to which we defer in times of peace and which we called the rights of man. It does not recognise the privileges of the wounded man or of the doctor and it does not distinguish between non-combatants and the fighting part of the population.
~ Max Hastings
We're all affected by life's random outbreaks of beauty and brutality
~ Megan McCafferty
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
~ Melina Marchetta
Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most innocent.
~ Unknown
The artist in Hansberry saw in the photograph of a black woman being manhandled by white cops all the suffering, all the injustice, all the offense to black life. The brutality was grave enough; the spread of the image transmitted trauma and reinforced the vulnerability of black women and, indeed, the race.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.
~ Michael Herr
And they were killers. Of course they were; what would anyone expect them to be?
~ Michael Herr
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
~ Unknown
Physical brutality and verbal abuse were tolerated, even encouraged. Hazing was a part of freshman life, with upperclassmen pummeling new cadets with broom handles or forcing them to stand fully dressed in their uniforms atop radiators or in steam-filled showers until they passed out. Michael Scadron, a close Trump friend at the academy, said his own hazing culminated with upperclassmen requiring him to kiss the school's mascot—a donkey—"on the ass." •
~ Unknown
Killing is a brutal, vicious, dangerous job," Wuu said. "Empathy for the enemy delays your reactions and gets you killed. It is necessary to think of them as nonhuman, as 'krauts,' 'gooks,' or 'aardvarks,' to enable you to shut off the civilized part of your brain and revert to the killer mentality. By thinking of your own culture as nonhuman, you
~ Michael Z. Williamson