Top 18 Brutalizing Quotes
#2. By the time Genghis Khan arrived to give his newest subjects their religious freedom, after first brutalizing them into submission, Darjmainia had developed its own very complex, partially amalgamated collection of sacred stories
Tony McMillen
#3. At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.
Frederick Douglass
#4. There is, however, another subject on which the Queen feels most strongly, and that is this horrible, brutalizing, un-Christian-like vivisection ... It must really not be permitted. It is a disgrace to a civilized country.
Queen Victoria
#5. On her extreme thinness during her 'Ally McBeal' years: I started under-eating, over-exercising, pushing myself too hard and brutalizing my immune system. I guess I just didn't find time to eat. I am much more healthy these days.
Calista Flockhart
#6. War ... is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.
Dana Kramer-Rolls
#7. To avoid being manhandled, as soon as the judge said, "Remove the defendant from the courtroom," i would say, "The defendant will remove herself." Most of the time it worked, but one day the marshals were so gung ho they jumped on me and started brutalizing me in open kourt.
Assata Shakur
#8. Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.
Charles Palliser
#9. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.
Matthew Arnold
#10. The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.
James Risen
#11. Most certainly prize-fighting is not half as brutalizing or demoralizing as many forms of big business and of the legal work carried on in connection with big business.
Theodore Roosevelt
#12. How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.
Henry George
#13. The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.
John Trudell
#14. I felt curiously aloof from my own self. No temptations maddened me. The plump, glossy little Eskimo girls with their fish smell, hideous raven hair and guinea pig faces, evoked even less desire in me than Dr. Johnson had.
Vladimir Nabokov
#15. I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.
Vonda Shepard
#16. For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.
James Bernard Frost
#17. Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.
Emmet Fox