The Communist torturers often said, 'There is no God, no hereafter, no punishment for evil. We can do what we wish. ' I have heard one torturer even say, 'I thank God, in whom I don't believe, that I have lived to this hour when I can express all the evil in my heart. ' He expressed it in unbelievable brutality and torture inflected on prisoners.
What's worse than brutality that dehumanizes women? Tolerance and indifference towards it.
Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality.
Beauty is much more intimidating than brutality.
We're not anti-police. . . we're anti-police brutality.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
I have only danced my life. As a child I danced the spontaneous joy of growing things. As an adolescent, I danced with joy turning to apprehension of the first realisation of tragic undercurrents; apprehension of the pitiless brutality and crushing progress of life.
I'm interested in confronting police brutality and police abuse of cracking down on street performers and street artists, but also in valorizing street art as legitimate performance within the artistic sphere, where it's so often conflated with pan-handling and begging and not "successful" art. I want to change laws around street performance.
When I think of Britain, I don't think of these lofty ideals which once held sway like the stoic upper lip. I think of girls on a Saturday night outside kebab shops stabbing each other with stiletto heels or guys smashing glasses into someone's face. I think of shows like Big Brother which celebrate people's discomfort and anguish or kids committing these terrifying happy slapping acts of brutality to each other at the drop of a hat.
Do not consider Collectivists as "sincere but deluded idealists". The proposal to enslave some men for the sake of others is not an ideal; brutality is not "idealistic," no matter what its purpose. Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.
There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.
So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.
The arrogance and brutality of empire are not repealed when they temporarily get deployed in a just cause.
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality. . . That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.
There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.
The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community.
Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image
