These brutal quotes will inspire you. Brutal punishingly hard or uncomfortable; or direct and lacking any attempt to disguise unpleasantness.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging brutal quotes, brutal sayings, and brutal proverbs.
Best Brutal Quotes
- “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
- “Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that’s depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.” ~ David Spade , Brutal quotes truth
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“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
- “More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman, and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- “If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys’ home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center.” ~ Tupac Shakur
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“Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.” ~ Andre Malraux
- “India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.” ~ Stafford Cripps
- “We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.” ~ Henry Knox
- “I think my height had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it’s part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature if you really want to get brutal about it.” ~ Paul Simon
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“We must now make clear to Lebanon that it will not benefit from U.S. assistance and support as long as it harbors this brutal terrorist and murder.” ~ Jim DeMint
- “This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it’s about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.” ~ Radha Mitchell
- “Rock ‘n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.” ~ Frank Sinatra
- “I mean it’s the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you’re out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It’s the most Darwinian, it’s beautiful, it’s brutal, it works.” ~ Jim Cramer
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“Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman.” ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- “We all know it’s brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.” ~ Arthur F. Burns
- “There is always a way, to be honest without being brutal.” ~ Arthur Dobrin , Brutal quotes honesty
- “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
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“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
- “Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature’s fairest forms.” ~ John Milton
- “Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.” ~ Mark Twain
- “At the time, when you’re being dissected and judged it’s pretty brutal, but in hindsight it’s great, and – it sounds cliched – you do come out the other side better and stronger.” ~ Kate Bosworth
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“Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery… brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.” ~ Eudora Welty
- “The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.” ~ Dorothy Allison
- “There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.” ~ Jean-Paul
- “When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.” ~ Donald Trump
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“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- “For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.” ~ Queen Victoria”The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.” ~ James Thurber
- “The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.” ~ William Nicholson
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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.” ~ Theodor Adorno
- “He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page.” ~ Jeremy Northam
- “Saddam’s fate should be in the hands of his countrymen. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.” ~ Ronnie James Dio , Brutal quotes about life
- “But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children’s home, I couldn’t have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.” ~ Lynn Johnston
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“You come there and hang out and have a drink before the show and eat, so it’s not that brutal. It’s only $6.” ~ Todd Barry
- “We’ve always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It’s no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.” ~ Terri Windling
- “What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we’re looking at is not a historical event but – and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it – a racket.” ~ Ernst Zundel
- “You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family, it was my mother. My mother, I would say, was a… very brutal disciplinarian.” ~ Lynn Johnston
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“I grew up in a military family, and there’s something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.” ~ Max Cannon
- “In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you’re doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I’ve worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.” ~ Nick Stahl
- “America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.” ~ Nick Rahall
- “Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.” ~ Jake Roberts , Brutal quotes about life
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“That would be getting up at 5 am… I don’t understand why film’s shoot such brutal hours. I think it’d be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The films would benefit in the end.” ~ Terry Zwigoff
- “I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.” ~ Randy Forbes
- “I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.” ~ Lech Walesa
- “If we do not voluntarily bring population growth under control in the next one or two decades, the nature will do it for us in the most brutal way, whether we like it or not.” ~ Henry W. Kendall
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“Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people maybe, and all that, it’s so grimly brutal!” ~ Robert Creeley
- “All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.” ~ Flannery O’Connor
- “Saddam Hussein was a brutal tyrant. I am glad he is now on trial for crimes against humanity. But, opposition to a dictator is not the measure I use when deciding whether to send our men and women in uniform off to war and possible death.” ~ Peter DeFazio
- “Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful, and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy, and always the color which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.” ~ Franz Marc
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“I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don’t employ old people or fat people.” ~ Ruby Wax
- “Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.” ~ Katherine Dunn
- “Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world” ~ Mary Boykin Chesnut
- “When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.” ~ Boris Spassky
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“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.” ~ John Charles Polanyi
- “We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.” ~ Max Lerner
- “The Cold War was waged in a particularly brutal and cynical way in Africa, and Africa seemed powerless to do anything to stop it.” ~ Ryszard Kapuscinski
- “Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of support for a really increasingly brutal repression, colonial settlements, and a new wall.” ~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
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“Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you’re in the can.” ~ Enya
- “Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn’t go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn’t particularly sheltered, but we were well brought up.” ~ Caroline Corr
- “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
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“But here too it should be noted that the President’s approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.” ~ Barney Frank
- “Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.” ~ Bianca Jagger
- “You don’t play triathlon. You play soccer; it’s fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It’s the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?” ~ Chris McCormack
Brutal extremely cruel or harsh; very direct and accurate in a way that is harsh or unpleasant.
