108 Quotes About Brutality

В 1941 году мы эвакуировались. А потом вернулись [в Запорожье] в ноябре 1945 года. Когда приехали, это был сплошь разрушенный город, одни только руины. И мальчишки моего возраста (к чему я был совершенно не готов) играли в этих руинах в войну. Кидали друг в друга кирпичами, если кто попадал — очень радовался. Это дети войны. Когда война идет, все звереют. И взрослые, и дети. И дети играли в такие зверские игры.

They believe civilization weakens natural selection. They do nature’s work so that we do not become a soft race.

There has never been a time in history where so many citizens are surveilling their corrupt government.

The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.

I'd seen glimpses of a different me. It was a different me because in those increments of time I thought I actually became a winner.The truth, however, is painful.It was a truth that told me with a scratching internal brutality that I was me, and that winning wan't natural for me. It had to be fought for, in the echoes and trodden footprints of my mind. In a way, I had to scavenge for moments of alrightness.

If the state security services can track down people that criticize President Buhari, why are they not locating the kidnappers taking people for ransom? We should make use of DSS strength in tracking what is needed to be tracked.

The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.

Tenderness is not weakness. Rather, it is a decision to face the scathing brutality of life, but to refuse to allow brutality to set the terms of the engagement.