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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
War
,
Hate
,
Stupidity
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
,
Money
,
Home
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
Mitt Romney
Religion
,
Power
,
Freedom
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
Yourself
,
Others
,
Arrogance
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence
Laugh
,
Tender
,
Mix
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
,
Crime
,
Insane
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
War
,
Lost
,
America
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Difference
,
Mankind
,
Victim
There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.
Henry Louis Gates
Two
,
Stories
,
Heard
We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.
Al Sharpton
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
Best
,
End
,
Fight
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield
Great
,
War
,
Idea
The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
Richard J. Needham
Person
,
Honesty
,
Honest
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
Theodore Bikel
Battle
,
Soul
,
Action
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
Josh Hutcherson
Important
,
Battle
,
Another
I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible.
James Paget
Book
,
Both
,
Public
We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
Wallace Shawn
Hope
,
Country
,
Become
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
Jean Racine
Virtue
,
Pushed
,
Outright
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.
Jo Nesbo
Regret
,
Wish
,
Chance
I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.
Eric Stoltz
Nature
,
History
,
Movies
But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.
Seamus Heaney
Change
,
Trust
,
Truth
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
,
Human
,
Goodness
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
Work
,
Truth
,
Pain
I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
Rodney King
Positive
,
Healing
,
Try
The transition from tyranny to democracy is very hard. The Syrian people have to handle this in a way that works in Syria. And the brutality of the Assad regime is unacceptable.
Jacob Lew
Hard
,
Democracy
,
Tyranny
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
Humor
,
Him
,
Pretty
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
Great
,
War
,
Leader
I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
Tatum O'Neal
Overcome
,
Physical
,
Mental
This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.
Albert Claude
Failure
,
Happen
,
Might
I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country.
John Burns
Country
,
Rather
,
Depressed
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