#brutality

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

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#against #balkans #bands #both #brutality

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#battle #brutality #deprivation #documentaries #endurance

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

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #religion

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#futility #hate #i #lived #only

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've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#brutality #fought #i #mental #overcome

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#brutally #enjoys #honest #honesty #more

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

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self. ↗

— George Grosz

#beliefs #best #bitter #bitter end #brutality