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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.


Ida B. Wells


#degree #foundation #government #inhabitants #law

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.


Terri Windling


#always #been #brutal #dark #each

I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's simpler living in remote tribes or communities where one is obliged to have a go or else you have to do without. I suppose it is fear of failure in an age where political correctness is trying to erase the word 'failure' from the language. It's OK to fail isn't it, but only if you've tried? What is so bizarre is that when one does try, one rarely falls short. Obviously some people do things better than others but if it gives you pleasure, then so what? As my grandmother used to say, 'patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence!' So don't say you can't make candles or soap or that you can't spin or weave until you've tried it. As for mending, well, if you're not throwing everything away, then you have no option but to make do and mend. After all, the only way to get rid of shopping malls and supermarkets with their food miles is for people not to shop in those places and the way to cure this mercenary mercantile world is to make your own things.


Clarissa Dickson Wright


#green #humor #living #truth #age

Poles understand perhaps better than anyone the consequences of making toothless warnings to brutal tyrants and terrorist regimes.


Paul Wolfowitz


#better #brutal #consequences #making #perhaps

I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms with, at last, a mute moan of human tenderness (her skin glistening in the neon light coming from the paved court through the slits in the blind, her soot-black lashes matted, her grave gray eyes more vacant than ever–for all the world a little patient still in the confusion of a drug after a major operation)–and the tenderness would deepen to shame and despair, and I would lull and rock my lone light Lolita in my marble arms, and moan in her warm hair, and caress her at random and mutely ask her blessing, and at the peak of this human agonized selfless tenderness (with my soul actually hanging around her naked body and ready to repent), all at once, ironically, horribly, lust would swell again–and 'oh, no,' Lolita would say with a sigh to heaven, and the next moment the tenderness and the azure–all would be shattered.


Vladimir Nabokov


#brutal #descriptive #feelings #love #lust

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.


Theodor Adorno


#brutal #gestures #making #men #precise

One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do.


Gail A. Eisnitz


#brutality #cruelty #frustration #meat #pigs

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


Alphonse de Lamartine


#brutality #cruelty #difference #mankind #only

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.


Max Lerner


#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live

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


#democracy #handle #hard #people #regime






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