#brutal

You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a... very brutal disciplinarian. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so. ↗

— Elizabeth A. Sherman

#always #american #avoid #brutal #dictators

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#brain #brutal #get #i #i think

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#brutal #desperate #expression #form #hear

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

#brutality #bureaucratic #city #coherent #come

It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#anarchist #brutal #communist #destruction #doctrines

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two. ↗

— Franz Marc

#blue #brutal #cheerful #colour #female

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#brutally #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #doing

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

#buy #center #department #family #get

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.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

— Michael Kazin

#arrogance #brutality #imperialism #united-states #war