Brutal Quotes - Page 8

• All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Selfish, Men, Wish

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”

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• Once a person was asked to step into this brutal century, anything could happen

  John Kennedy Toole

  Steps, Century, Persons

  John Kennedy Toole (2004). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.580, LSU Press

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• I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

  Peter Cameron

  Childhood, Adults, World

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• Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than
  bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

  Frans de Waal

  Peaceful, Bipolar, Selfishness

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• Often people who live through the trauma are nostalgic when it's over. When I went back to Bosnia 20 years after the brutal civil war, even people who had been badly wounded told me they missed those times. They were missing their more courageous selves.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Missing

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• I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Time, Lying, Cat

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• It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

  Yann Martel

  Simple, Killing, Used

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.

  Boyd Rice

  Law, Perfection, Joy

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• I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

  Nicole Krauss

  Loneliness, Dark, Past

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.129, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Judgment is easy: it is black and white, as brutal as a gavel strike.

  Luanne Rice

  Black And White, Judgment, Easy

  Luanne Rice (2005). “Summer of Roses”, p.7, Bantam

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• Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

  Keith Richards

  Playgrounds, Battlefields

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• We had fed the heart on fantasies, The heart's grown brutal from the fare, More substance in our enmities Than in our love

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Substance, Enmity

  The Cat and the Moon (1924) "Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The

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• Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Animal, Numbers, Bird

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• It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Water, Political

  Karl Marx (2018). “The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings: & Selected Writings”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

  Elena Ferrante

  Night, Circles, Necks

  Elena Ferrante (2005). “The Days of Abandonment”, p.144, Penguin

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• Some wars are about bombing. For the people of the Baltics, this war was about believing. In 1991, after 50 years of brutal occupation, the three Baltic countries regained their independence, peacefully and with dignity. They chose hope over hate and showed the world that even through the darkest night, there is light. Please research it. Tell someone. These three tiny nations have taught us that love is the most powerful army. Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy - love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Country, Powerful, Hate

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• School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, School, Boys

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.308, Vintage

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• Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

  Ari Fleischer

  People, Hussein, Chance

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

  Ti-Grace Atkinson

  Saying Less, One Thing, Consequence

  Ti-Grace Atkinson (1974). “Amazon odyssey”

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• I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Beautiful, Harsh, Minutes

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• In football a man was asked to do a difficult and brutal job, and he either did it or got out.

  Frederick Exley

  Football, Jobs, Men

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were kids, with relationships that are so empty and stupid and brutal. If you don't find a way to break the chain and change in some way, then you wind up, as the rhyme goes: a murder of one, for sorrow.

  Adam Duritz

  Stupid, Kids, Eight

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• A normal modeling job consists of hair and makeup starting at 5:30 a.m. On location, we shoot until theres no light, then drive home. If were lucky, well have a hotel close to the location, which takes out the driving time. Otherwise, its pretty brutal, from airplane, to car, to job, and back again.

  Jessica Hart

  Jobs, Home, Airplane

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• Gay sexuality inevitably involves brutal physical abusiveness and the unnatural imposition of alien substances into internal organs, orally and anally, that inevitably suppress the immune system and heighten susceptibility to disease.

  Rod Parsley

  Gay, Substance, Disease

  Rod Parsley (2005). “Silent No More”, p.74, Charisma Media

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