When the Bolsheviks came to power they were soft and easy with their enemies... we had begun by making a mistake. Leniency towards such a power was a crime against the working classes. That soon became apparent...
Joseph StalinTags: brutality
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Peter WattsTags: life-philosophy brutality altruism self-interest
If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
Christopher DuttonTags: mankind brutality civilizations
Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
Christopher DuttonTags: man civilization suffering order brutality
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 BuettnerTags: humanity war human-nature fighting unfairness brutality human-superiority
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
John FowlesTags: fight weapons shame selfishness resentment brutality john collector fowles
One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do.
Gail A. EisnitzTags: animals vegetarianism slaughterhouse meat violence frustration cruelty pigs brutality sadism
There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: reality cruelty battles brutality wars
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?
Vasily GrossmanTags: art war culture brutality
Brutality and injustice made us raise our hands towards the sky for years; God didn’t respond us, but drones came to our rescue.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: injustice america afghanistan brutality drone drone-attacks us-drone
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