Quotes about Brutality

Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Lucy was frightened, frightened near to death. Her voice choked, she could not breath, her limbs went numb. This is not happening, she said to herself as the men forced her down; it is just a dream, a nightmare. While the men, for their part, drank up her fear, revelled in it, did all they could to hurt her, to menace her, to heighten her terror. Call your dogs! they said to her. Go on, call your dogs! No dogs? Then let us show you dogs!

Since the desires for power and control are in every heart, you don't have to look overseas for lawless brutality. It happens every day between parents and children, boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives. Where there is injustice, shame will be part of its fallout.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.

Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements.

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

For human community life cannot long endure on a basis of crude force, brutality, terror, and hate.

But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.