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#brutality

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Wo ein Gebildeter weilt, kann keine Rohheit aufkommen.


Confucius


#education #education

Social systems proceed by (usually) covering up the brutalities upon which they are based. The doctor doesn't let you get to his door and then turn you away, rather his home address is hard to find. The government handcuffs you so they don't have to shoot you trying to escape. And so on.


Tyler Cowen


#coercion #social-systems #home

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.


Peter Watts


#brutality #life-philosophy #self-interest #life

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.


Robert Buettner


#fighting #human-nature #human-superiority #humanity #unfairness

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.


Malcolm X


#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.


Georg Brandes


#baseness #brutality #comrades #encountered #frankness

We became convinced that, regardless of Stalin's awful brutality and his reign of terror, he was a great war leader. Without Stalin, they never would have held.


W. Averell Harriman


#became #brutality #convinced #great #great war

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.


Seamus Heaney


#based #brutality #change #citizen #destructive

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

There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery.


Henry Louis Gates


#always #brutality #european #haunted #heard






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