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Quotes About Brutal

And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
Time exists to be brutal in.
~ Alice Notley
I always loved 'The Weakest Link' and how brutal Anne Robinson was on it.
~ Joe Lycett
For hundreds of thousands of years, life was brutal. It still is for a good chunk of the planet. The technology and wealth we enjoy in North America is a very new development in history, and I think we miss the challenges of day-to-day survival in our comparatively easy modern lives. Some people will even create problems if they have none.
~ Jeff Carlson
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
~ Josh Hutcherson
If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
~ Susanne Bier
But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
~ Barney Frank
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
~ George Agnew Reid
I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.
~ Yukio Mishima
Incluso si decidiéramos repudiar por completo el legado de un imperio brutal con la esperanza de reconstruir y salvaguardar las culturas «auténticas» que lo precedieron, con toda probabilidad lo que defenderíamos no sería otra cosa que la herencia de un imperio más antiguo y no menos brutal.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.
~ Donald Trump
Didn't Adelaide see what she was doing? Didn't she understand that her brutal actions carried terrible consequences for her people? She was so vigilant, so worried about threats from her enemies. She raised armies, built warships—all to keep her people
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.
~ Andrew Davidson
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
~ Donal Logue
'A Just Defiance' has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.
~ Justin Cartwright
The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.
~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
There's a real, brutal nature to the capitalism practiced by the main character in 'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia.' And I think playing dirty is certainly part of that.
~ Mohsin Hamid
What I like in L.A. is that it's a lot more brutal. In England it's, 'Have a cup of tea, have a chat,' and you still don't get the part. In L.A. you go in, do your bit, and if they don't like you, you're straight out again. In a sense, that's more honest.
~ Lucy Punch
She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.
~ Hillary Jordan, When She Woke
People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.
~ Don DeLillo
He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.
~ Jeremy Northam
The truth isn't always beautiful, and it's almost never kind. The truth just is.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Humans have terrible passions that can go either way: create or destroy, it all depends on where they emerge. Art is not a tranquil occupation. What is peaceful about wrestling with nothingness? If the process isn't brutal, it's just decor. Your choice: violence towards others, or violence to yourself?
~ Jessica Zafra
DODD, PAPEN'S MARBURG SPEECH seemed a marker of what he had long believed—that Hitler's regime was too brutal and irrational to last. Hitler's own vice-chancellor had spoken out
~ Erik Larson