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• The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Drama, Two

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• I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

  Georg Brandes

  Kindness, Goodness, Baseness

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

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• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Military, Hands, Cities

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

  George Stevens

  Arrogance, Fierce, Despise

  George Cooper Stevens, Paul Cronin (2004). “George Stevens: Interviews”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.

  W. Averell Harriman

  War, Leader, Rehabilitation

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• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Animal, Differences, Victim

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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, Inequality

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• I admit there’s an element of brutality in all my work - it’s part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I’m trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people’s pain and humiliation.

  Todd Solondz

  Pain, People, Trying

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

  Mathieu Kassovitz

  Hate, Police, Film

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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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• Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Covering, Sentimental, Sentimentality

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• When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived

  Arthur Koestler

  Country, Feet, Atmosphere

  Arthur Koestler (1973). “The lion and the ostrich: the eighth annual lecture under the "Thank-offering to Britain Fund."”, Not Avail

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality.

  Carl Jung

  Victim, Psychiatrist, Wells

  Carl Gustav Jung (1978). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: The spirit in man, art, and literature”

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• Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

  James A. Garfield

  War, Ideas, World

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.360, Best Books on

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• While helping hundreds of thousands of refugees, Red Cross volunteers undoubtedly heard stories of Nazi brutality and rumors of mass gassings and they noted those rumors and kept an eye out for any evidence of them, but they saw nothing to indicate that the rumors were true.

  David Duke

  Eye, Ku Klux Klan, Volunteer

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• The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

  Markus Zusak

  Injury

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.193, Random House

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• I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

  John Fowles

  Fighting, Selfishness, Weapons

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Running, Cutting, Government

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evolution: The Economist”, p.264, VM eBooks

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Knives

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• Our country's national crime is lynching. It is not the creature of an hour, the sudden outburst of uncontrolled fury, or the unspeakable brutality of an insane mob.

  Ida B. Wells

  Country, Lynching, Insane

  "Crime and Punishment in America". Book by David B. Wolcott and Tom Head, p. 144, 2010.

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• The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film.

  Pola Negri

  Tired, Leaving, Language

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• Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Quoted in Montreal Gazette, 16 May 1975

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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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