#brutal

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#connected #emotionally #extension #guitar #i

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#above #all things #animal #animal world #brutal

Being at the mercy of the acting profession, in the early days of one's career, is really brutal and feels like you have no control over your life, at all. ↗

— Charlie Hunnam

#being #brutal #career #control #days

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#brutal #feels #idea #like #middle-class

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#costs #i #i wish #lives #really

Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#also #both #brought #brutality #building

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism. ↗

— Boyd Rice

#brutality #fascism #law #might-is-right #natural-law

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#brutal #god #learn #most #teachers

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

#battlefields #brought #brutality #comfort #into