Brutal Quotes - Page 23

• While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

  Hassan Blasim

  Running, Iraq, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose wars never ended, and from an early age I was passionate about understanding the world through knowledge.

  Hassan Blasim

  Country, War, Understanding

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.

  Mary J. Miller

  Smart, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Nonfiction ties your hands a bit, and just like writing poetry in rhyme, it can force you to make more brutal decisions in terms of word choice, plot, etc.

  Emily Susan Rapp

  Writing, Hands, Ties

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The Ice Nation is a pretty brutal place. They breed war heroes. The relationship between mother and child, in that world, is a little bit different than it is in our own society. But, no one really likes being a disappointment to their parents and their family.

  Zach McGowan

  Mother, Children, Disappointment

  Source: collider.com

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• I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably brutal visions, my most intimate friends.

  Yukio Mishima

  Blood, Vision, Comfort

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• Mostly you don't want to make people feel bad because they carry that with them for the rest of their lives. I've found that. I hurt people on Celebrity Fit Club by being too honest. People loved it, but I was serious. I just hate phony baloneys. I can't do it anymore. I told them no. My tongue is too sharp. It was brutal.

  Jackee Harry

  Hurt, Hate, People

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

  Dwight Garner

  Book, Class, Wings

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• Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

  Robert Greene

  Philosophy, Past, No Respect

  Twitter post from Sep 02, 2015

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• Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.

  David Deida

  Honesty, Men, Challenges

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.53, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad.

  Cornel Wilde

  Reason, Scene, Shock

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• My self . . . is a dramatic ensemble. Here a prophetic ancestor makes his appearance. Here a brutal hero shouts. Here an alcoholic bon vivant argues with a learned professor. Here a lyric muse, chronically love-struck, raises her eyes to heaven. Her papa steps forward, uttering pedantic protests. Here the indulgent uncle intercedes. Here the aunt babbles gossip. Here the maid giggles lasciviously. And I look upon it all with amazement, the sharpened pen in my left hand.

  Paul Klee

  Uncles, Hero, Eye

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for -- ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Heart, Ambition, Men

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!”, Pocket

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• It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

  Zoe Akins

  Wife, Easy, Lady Love

  Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”

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• Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Indulge In, Clothes, Gentleman

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• Indians still consider the whites a brutal people who treat their children like enemies - playthings, too, coddling them like pampered pets or fragile toys, but underneath always like enemies, enemies that must be restrained, bribed, spied upon, and punished. They believe that children so treated will grow up as dependent and immature as pets and toys, and as angry and dangerous as enemies within the family circle, to be appeased and fought.

  Mari Sandoz

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

  Mari Sandoz (1959). “Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings of Mari Sandoz”, p.32, U of Nebraska Press

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• We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

  George W. Bush

  People, Enemy, Trying

  Speech at a Georgia rally, www.nytimes.com. October 31, 2006.

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• I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early imprinting and conditioning made me a life-long radical. My education was mostly scientific, majoring in electrical engineering and applied math. Those imprints made me a life-long rationalist. I have become increasingly skeptical about, or detached from, the assumption that radicalism and rationalism are the only correct perspectives with which to view life, but they remain my favorite perspectives.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Math, Views, Engineering

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Beautiful, Mean, Support

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I hate the way war is seen as something inherently brutal and ugly. Yes, much of war brings out the worst part of our [people's] nature. But in war, all kinds of noble human traits have been developed, such as discipline, cohesion, pride.

  Robert Greene

  Hate, War, Pride

  Source: www.sonshi.com

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• 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

  Nature, Men, Brutality

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• Divorce is brutal and horrible and... you have to actively work to get your life back on track.

  Jane Kaczmarek

  Divorce, Track, Horrible

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• The celebrity aspect is nothing short of ridiculous, and auditioning is brutal and dehumanizing. Every time I see a pretty young girl on the subway reading sides for an audition, my only thought is, 'Man, am I glad I'm not doing that anymore.' I never feel nostalgia, just relief.

  Mara Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Men

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• There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

  Bob Herbert

  Country, Violence, Lovers

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