Brutal Quotes - Page 13

• The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.

  Chris Cleave

  Hate, Anger, Writing

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• A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do

  Niall Williams

  Healing, Hands, Sound

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• One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Beautiful, Interesting, Tragedy

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• It’s not easy to find old-school journalism in true crime … yet with Lethal Intent, author Sue Russell proves how integrity, tenacity, brutal truth and honest reporting become essential components to what is a riveting—if not terrifying—narrative of America’s most hated ‘monster,’ Aileen Carol Wuornos. It’s not easy humanizing serial killers, but through an objective lens, clear and defined, Russell paints a graphic portrait of Wuornos’ evil intentions and rough life—a true page-turner, breathless, intense—but also important.

  M. William Phelps

  Integrity, School, America

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• PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting.

  Kate Wilhelm

  Unique, Feminist, Erotic

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• Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

  Susan Stinson

  Moon, Paper, Origami

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• A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Lying, Deception, Truth Is

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cities, Los Angeles, Comradeship

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

  Salman Rushdie

  Native American, Giving, Encounters

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• The situation of women living in Islam-stricken
  societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage
  of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women
  and girls, beheadings, stoning to death,
  floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of
  marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most
  brutal and visible aspects of women's
  rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East

  Maryam Namazie

  Girl, Children, Islamic

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• What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

  Hannah

  Shields, Form, Aggressive

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• Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.

  Rodney Stark

  Long, Triumph, Arrogant

  "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery". Book by Rodney Stark, August 29, 2004.

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• The World Club Challenge clash with St George was a brutal battle. It was one of the hardest games I've ever played in. I guess it would be good to have more matches of such intensity but, trust me, our bodies would struggle if we were subjected to this every week. There is a limit to how much players can take.

  Sam Tomkins

  Struggle, Player, Rugby League

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• [He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first light, punishing himself without mercy. His was the private dignity of the lone athlete, with a grim purpose, fighting a solitary war with himself, toward a goal only he can see.

  Daniel Topolski

  War, Athlete, Fighting

  Daniel Topolski, Patrick Robinson (2013). “True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny”, p.32, Random House

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• Man's nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.

  Al-Ghazali

  Dog, Men, Pigs

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• Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Animal, Realizing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Three, Legs

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• I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal nurse. I see it crouching inflexibly in a corner of the ceiling. It comes down in geometrical diagonal like lightning.It says, I remain, I AM, I shall never cease to be: your memory will grow a deathly glaze: you will forget, you will fade out, but I cannot be undone.Thus every quarter hour it puts the taste of death in my mouth, and shows me, but not gently, how I go whoring after oblivion.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Memories, Nurse, Facts

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• Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

  Winston Churchill

  Hope, Heart, Night

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

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• Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Past, Failing, Stomping

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• Imperialism is a system of exploitation that occurs not only in the brutal form of those who come with guns to conquer territory. Imperialism often occurs in more subtle forms, a loan, food aid, blackmail . We are fighting this system that allows a handful of men on earth to rule all of humanity.

  Thomas Sankara

  Fighting, Gun, Men

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• It (broadcast journalism) is a brutal arena where the knives are sharp and the toughest Kevlar vest in the world will not protect you forever.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Knives, Forever, Kevlar

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• It's a great sacrifice to do what I'm doing. I'm not having fun at all...What a brutal job!

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Jobs, Fun, Sacrifice

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• There is no sadder sight in the world than to see a beautiful theory killed by a brutal fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beautiful, Sight, World

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