Brutal Quotes - Page 2

• All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Character, Thinking, People

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.275, Macmillan

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Technology, Men, Gestures

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

  Terry Zwigoff

  Thinking, Would Be, Cost

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• America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.

  Nick Rahall

  Equality, Years, Ideas

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• Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

  Robert Creeley

  Reading, Writing, Imagination

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• You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian.

  Lynn Johnston

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

  Max Cannon

  Military, Effort, Style

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• 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

  Pieces, Sometimes, Levity

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• If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Two, Growth, Population

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• We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

  Terri Windling

  Dark, Sublime, Age

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• What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

  Ernst Zundel

  Historical, Events, Racket

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• But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

  Lynn Johnston

  Mother, Children, Home

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  Randy Forbes

  Smell, People, September 11

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• You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it's not that brutal. It's only $6.

  Todd Barry

  Drink, Shows, Hanging Out

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• 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

  Sarcastic, Humor, Thinking

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• I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

  Lech Walesa

  Sympathy, Army, Past

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• Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Country, Fate, Men

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

  Jake Roberts

  Mistake, Kids, Men

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Humanity, September 11, Criminals

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• The economic class struggle is a struggle against inessanlty intensified exploitation: not only against the brutal material form of exploitation, capitalism's tendency to reduce wages, and against the class 'techniques' for increasing productivity... but also around the question of the technical-social division of labor that prevails om enterprises, and against bourgeois ideology and repression.

  Louis Althusser

  Struggle, Class, Division Of Labor

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• I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Mean, Divorce, Men

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• 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

  Family, Home, Winning

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  Benjamin Spock

  Class, Ideas, Racism

  "Decent and Indecent: Our Personal and Political Behavior". Book by Benjamin Spock, p. 103, 1970.

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Government

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