#brutal

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality. ↗

— Jean Racine

#i #outright #pushed #virtue

America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#also #america #any #attack #brutal

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

Places draw us to them for reasons beyond the feelings derived from the five senses...some deeper recognition is at work, felt throough an unextinguishable animal sensibility. ↗

— Peter & Alison Smithson

#italian-thoughts #new-brutalism #territory #architecture

The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.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

Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #religion

I am depressed rather at the wave of brutality sweeping over the country. ↗

— John Burns

#brutality #country #depressed #i #i am

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

#battle #brutal #brutality #convey #how

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#belong #brutal #centuries #crossed #experienced

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