A cry. Pain. It is humanity's ugliest face. Brutality is not merely violence. It is a deliberate stripping of dignity. An act devoid of all mercy or logic. It can manifest in wars. In prisons. In systemic injustice. Or even in the simplest daily interactions. It leaves indelible scars. On victims and on tormentors. The sayings on this page do not merely describe it. They make you feel it.
āOnce lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on the beat, the man in the street.ā
āTo pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.ā
