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Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center. -- Tupac Shakur
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. -- Al Sharpton
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. -- James A. Garfield
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob. -- Ida B. Wells
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
We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. -- Wallace Shawn
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. -- George Grosz
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation. -- Todd Solondz
Brutality creates respect. -- Adolf Hitler
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. -- Jean Racine
Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule. -- Patricia Moyes
Never mind a world that can't see past brutality. -- Ric Ocasek
Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. -- John Ruskin
Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. -- D. H. Lawrence
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness. -- Georg Brandes
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. -- George Stevens
The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film. -- Pola Negri
We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held. -- W. Averell Harriman
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen. -- Albert Claude
In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets? -- Maxim Gorky
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
HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood. -- Mathieu Kassovitz
If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague. -- Wilhelm Keitel
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. -- Cesare Pavese
In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters. -- Ludwig von Mises
Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing. -- Mark de Mori
I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. -- John Burns
The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. -- Richard J. Needham
Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion. -- Annie Lennox
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint. -- Rodney King
We bear witness to the worst of human brutality, retweet what we have witnessed, and then we move on to the next atrocity. There is always more atrocity. -- Roxane Gay
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor. -- Henry Rollins
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. -- Theodore Bikel
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will. -- Mitt Romney
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based. -- Seamus Heaney
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat. -- Markus Zusak
If the nose has become a deeply disillusioned and grief-stricken organ in the modern world, then what of the ear? The poor little ear - such an innocent, intelligent and sensitive creature; in these times of such flagrant sonic brutality, the sense within the ear has much to contend with. -- Michael Leunig
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood. -- Jo Nesbo
We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality. -- Maj Sjowall
Industry without art is brutality. -- Ananda Coomaraswamy
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality. -- Carl Jung
Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality. -- Edi Rama
The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. -- Markus Zusak
Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict. -- Dorothy Garlock
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy. -- Warren W. Wiersbe
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it. -- Meryl Streep
There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police. -- Colin Kaepernick
Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion. -- Julia Ward Howe
There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality. -- Colin Kaepernick
Whatever goal, man has reached is due to his originality plus his brutality -- Adolf Hitler
To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present. -- Anthony Marra
Humans, so easily electrified by the snap, crackle, pop of blood, brutality, and butchery. -- Artemis Crow
Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality. -- Helmut Kohl
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. -- Joni Mitchell
It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. -- Henry Rollins
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son. -- Melina Marchetta
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. -- Adam Gopnik
Don't you think that it is necessary to have a sense of brutality in photography? -- Nobuyoshi Araki
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy -- Machiavelli
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters. -- M.F. Moonzajer
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. -- John Fowles
Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable. -- Emily Saliers
Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform. -- Ralph Nader
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal. -- M.F. Moonzajer
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. -- Richard J. Needham
People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. -- Richard J. Needham
What draws men and women together is stronger than the brutality and tyranny which drive them apart. -- Millicent Fawcett
There is civil disobedience against the military machine, protest against police brutality directed especially at people of color. -- Howard Zinn
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause. -- Michael Kazin
The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there. -- Geoffrey S. Fletcher
We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality. -- Mikhail Bakunin
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. -- Cesar Chavez
Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. -- Thrity Umrigar
Don't denounce our pain as savage. What's savage is the cruel inhumanity and brutality of the police. Condemn that. -- Amandla Stenberg
Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals. -- Robert Thurman
The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite. -- Thomas Bernhard
I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism. -- Richard Grossman
Woman's ability to earn money is better protection against the tyranny and brutality of men than her ability to vote. -- Victoria Woodhull
The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left. -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft
In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I'm grateful to know that it exists. -- Maya Angelou
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. -- Willa Cather
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive. -- Jaggi Vasudev
She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air. -- Holly Black
The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny. -- Ho Chi Minh
Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people. -- Quentin Tarantino
The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. -- Greg Iles
I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others. -- Paul Newman
Never mind a world That can't see past brutality Answers are getting the gas Live gestures Have constantly been used As weapons -- Ric Ocasek
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead -- Frank Herbert
Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard. -- Nelson Mandela
Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment. -- Leo Tolstoy
The unimaginable brutality of this latest manifestation of Political Islam in the Arab world is too much to bear for many Muslim Arab -- Hisham Melhem
I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself. -- Malcolm X
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life... -- Woodrow Wilson
Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends -- Cesare Pavese
Every man is sensitive. Some cover it up with brutality, others with cowardice and vanity, but a small few wear it bravely like armor -- Solange nicole
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed. -- Hedwig Dohm
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. -- Danny Glover
The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality. -- Kedar Joshi
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. -- George Steiner
Consider the bloody history of Europe: there was a great aspiration for high culture, yet this very same culture was shaped by brutality and barbarism. -- Ori Gersht
The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization. -- L. Ron Hubbard
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship. -- Elie Wiesel
If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture. -- Gabe Polsky
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality. -- Khaled Hosseini
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole -- Karl Marx
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide. -- John M Swomley
Ask anything of men. Ask them to achieve wealth, fame, love, brutality, murder, self-sacrifice. But donâ??t ask them to achieve self-respect. They will hate your soul. -- Ayn Rand
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery. -- Henry Louis Gates
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. -- Charles Krauthammer

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