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Quotes About Brutal

From Hitler he might have learned that angry demonstrations unnerve well-conducted people and that in statesmanship the advantage always lies with the unprincipled, the brutal, and the insane. Hitler could at will convulse himself with rage and, when he had gained his ends, be coolly correct to his staff, all in a matter of moments
~ Saul Bellow
Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.
~ Dan Simmons
But science is not a democracy. Science is a brutal arena where ideas are picked apart, attacked, and tested to see if they hold up. Those that do hold up live to fight another day. Those that don't are dragged off and discarded. To survive, a theory must be supported by vibrant, meaningful, replicable research.
~ Edward Humes
How I deep judge, how I deep, surprise, and shock at the brutal killing of the innocent people.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.
~ Elena Ferrante
Conheço muitos homens e muitas mulheres que poderiam narrar experiências não muito diferentes: o amor, o sexo são irracionais e brutais.
~ Elena Ferrante
We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.
~ Henry Knox
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.
~ Brin-Jonathan Butler
People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.
~ Viggo Mortensen
Noble, wicked, selfish, loyal, stubborn, caring, protective, brutal, powerful, vengeful, loving, strong, fallible, vital Fionn Mór.
~ S. Young
Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping out the rhythm on a carpeted floor.
~ Margaret Atwood
A pain slashed through her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
~ Margaret Mitchell
I pride myself on being a jerk, because I'm brutally honest all the time.
~ CM Punk
That's harsh.
~ Anna Quindlen
Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this.
~ Scott Westerfeld
But, he warned, should the population—steadily stripped of its most basic rights, including the right to privacy, and increasingly impoverished and bereft of hope—become restive, inverted totalitarianism will become as brutal and violent as past totalitarian states.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
It'll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn't have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it. She'd never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.' (Alix)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life is all about regrets. Don't let those regrets be that you've hurt someone who really loves you. Keep those to a minimum. It's bad enough when you have to carry them through a single lifetime. When you carry them through thousands, it's brutal.-Kyrian
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
God did not care about people in pain. Not the little ones. There was no such thing as justice, retribution, or community; neighbors did not help neighbors and the meek would not inherit the earth. All of that was bullshit. The church, the cops, his mother—none of them could make it right, none of them had the power. For a year, Johnny had lived the new, brutal truth that he was on his own.
~ John Hart
Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them … with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind, that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society, and that general fairness that cements mankind.
~ John Locke
In a 1948 essay, Toynbee blamed all the false and brutal political movements of the modern world on this baneful Jewish influence, including both Communism and Nazism.
~ Arthur Herman
But, true, I've wept too much! Dawns break hearts./ Every moon is brutal, every sun bitter.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
the gnashing of teeth, the hissing of fire, the reeking sighs abate. All filthy memories fade out. My last regrets scamper off. . . . A spiritual battle is as brutal as a battle of men.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Siempre es tan brutalmente sincero? —Sólo cuando además de guapa la mujer es inteligente.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte