Brutal Quotes

• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

  Andre Malraux

  Style, Age, May

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• India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.

  Stafford Cripps

  Special, Being Free, Firsts

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• 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

  Government, Law, People

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• I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.

  Paul Simon

  Thinking, Brain, Want

  "The long and the short of it" by Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2007.

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• We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.

  Jim DeMint

  Long, Support, Benefits

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• This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

  Radha Mitchell

  Dream, Cities, Acting

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• You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

  David Spade

  Depressing, Fun, Looks

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

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• I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

  Jim Cramer

  Beautiful, Mean, Numbers

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Gentleman, Vices

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• We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

  Arthur F. Burns

  Knows, Fronts

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• There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

  Arthur Dobrin

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

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• A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Instruments, Connected

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• Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Careers, Over You, Acting

  "Charlie Hunnam Talks FRANKIE GO BOOM, the Success of SONS OF ANARCHY, His Desire to Direct, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2012.

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• Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Selfish, Wind

  John Milton, John D'Alton (1741). “Comus: a masque, now adapted to the stage by John Dalton ... The fifth edition”, p.35

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• Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Law, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.227, Createspace Independent Pub

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• At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.

  Kate Bosworth

  Stronger, Sound, Sides

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• Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.

  Eudora Welty

  Running, People, Waiting

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.38, Modern Library

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• The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

  Dorothy Allison

  Good Life, Believe, Class

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.25, Open Road Media

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