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Quotes About Brutal

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.
~ Nick Stahl
Don't you think she's a little cruel?" "Cruel? Babe, the Marquis de Sade was cruel. This chick is a class-A cunt. I think she'd cut her own mother if the woman got in her way.
~ Shelly Laurenston
I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."
~ Carla Gugino
I wasn't seeing much of a long-term career in waitressing—which, for a girl who doesn't even like standing up to wash her hair, can be brutal—
~ Meg Cabot
For too long the term domestic violence has been used as a soft term which suggests it emerges in an intimate context that is private and somehow less threatening, less brutal, than the violence that takes place outside the home. This is not so, since more women are beaten and murdered in the home than on the outside.
~ bell hooks
I feel enormously blessed to be a successful black woman writer in this culture, but I have found my small fame, such as it is, to be very isolating... because I think that especially for black women, the more we rise from the bottom, the more we move and journey, the more we are the targets of the most brutal and vicious attacks.
~ bell hooks
When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be replaced by something which to the mechanised man appears more natural, though in fact is only more brutal.
~ Bertrand Russell
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
~ Beryl Markham
Remember! X looks abject-lovingly at Y; Y is irritated by mounting self-reproaches, which are resented as being undeserved; Y feels compelled to be brutal to X. Sadism, hostility an essential element in love. Therefore it's important that love be a transaction of hostilities. Lesson: not to surrender one's heart where it's not wanted.
~ Susan Sontag
Everybody has a savage instinct.
~ Wanderlei Silva
La guerra suele poner en evidencia de manera brutal la sinrazón del sentido común.
~ Federico Andahazi
Kinsman survived many subsequent brutal battles in the Pacific as a Code Talker. He is not to be under-estimated.
~ Bob Mayer
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It's built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don't even see. It's a messy business, bringing peace into the world.
~ Bono
I don't care where you go or what company you work for - and I've pretty much worked for them all - WWE by far is the most brutal road schedule in the world. It takes a special kind of individual to navigate that and be able to thrive in that environment. It's a challenge that I've enjoyed.
~ Samoa Joe
After 'Chandni Bar' there was a shutdown of such bars in Mumbai. After 'Page 3' people started avoiding such events. 'Traffic Signal' exposed the money flow through the mafia. I'm not apologetic about the brutal truth in my films. Almost 70% of my films are based on reality, and 30% I fictionalize or change to suit my film.
~ Madhur Bhandarkar
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Episodic TV is notoriously brutal because just when you think 'I've got this, I know this character' you can pick up the script for series four and you die in the first episode - or your character suddenly transitions from a woman to a man.
~ Zawe Ashton
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.
~ Ti-Grace Atkinson
Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.
~ William Penn
The truth is not beautiful - it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood - but it is the truth.
~ Mark Mirabello
It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.
~ Deborah Harkness
It's brutal out there. A bear will eat a lactating ewe alive, starting with her udders. as a rule, animals in the wild don't get good deaths surrounded by their loved ones.
~ Michael Pollan
The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.
~ Michael Korda