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Quotes About Brutal

The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime.
~ Gene Sharp
It wasn't our bad habits which really scared us; we got too used to them, they only worried others. It was the odd, unpredictable, brutal impulse you fought to restrain, the one that the rest never even saw and hopefully never would.
~ Irvine Welsh
If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.
~ Suzanne Collins
Brutal, bloody Cato who can snap a neck with a twist of his arm,
~ Suzanne Collins
There's been many times when a producer will say, 'I don't think you want to say that.' We were told we shouldn't be so brutally honest about songwriting or radio or the industry.
~ Tyler Joseph
Gentleness is akin to divinity. Perhaps no quality is so far removed from all that is coarse, brutal and selfish as gentleness, so that when one is becoming gentle, he is becoming divine.
~ Napoleon Hill
My friend, life can often be most brutal and unfair. Death is the same.
~ Neal Shusterman
shock, shock, lord, lord, the factories. the wasted days, the days without meaning, the days of bosses and idiots, and the slow and brutal clock.
~ Charles Bukowski
La véritable fonction de la littérature est de nous maintenir en vie dans un monde brutal. [Interview de Charles Dantzig par Josyane Savigneau à l'occasion de la publication de Pourquoi lire ?, 15 oct. 2010, journal Le Monde]
~ Charles Dantzig
A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.
~ Charlotte Armstrong
War is brutal. Civilians just suffer through it
~ Tim O'Brien
We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us. For
~ Carlo Rovelli
Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.
~ George R.R. Martin
The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New York, of its calm and brutal indifference.
~ Georges Simenon
With a face that was both aristocratic and brutal, he looked like the king he was by birthright and the soldier he'd become by destiny.
~ J.R. Ward
Con un rostro tan aristocrático como brutal, parecía el rey que en realidad era por derecho propio y el guerrero en que el destino lo había convertido.
~ J.R. Ward
He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
~ Jack London
Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.
~ Paul Wolfowitz
I started talking about retiring in 1997. This is a brutal game, and 25 years of it ain't good for your health. After I get past Tarver on Saturday, give me Klitschko or Tyson. Otherwise, I'm outta here.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.
~ Robert E. Lee
X-Force was made like a brutal X-Men club - they're doing special forces, R-rated things.
~ Stefan Kapicic
I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies... but it's a brutal world, man.
~ Pete Doherty
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
~ Theodor Adorno