#brutal

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#gentleman #indulges #vice #who

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#brutality #great #idea #ideas #no idea

I don't know it is that I always feel that other people can create things but that I can't. I imagine it's simpler living in remote tribes or communities where one is obliged to have a go or else you have to do without. I suppose it is fear of failure in an age where political correctness is trying to erase the word 'failure' from the language. It's OK to fail isn't it, but only if you've tried? What is so bizarre is that when one does try, one rarely falls short. Obviously some people do things better than others but if it gives you pleasure, then so what? As my grandmother used to say, 'patience and perseverance made a bishop of his reverence!' So don't say you can't make candles or soap or that you can't spin or weave until you've tried it. As for mending, well, if you're not throwing everything away, then you have no option but to make do and mend. After all, the only way to get rid of shopping malls and supermarkets with their food miles is for people not to shop in those places and the way to cure this mercenary mercantile world is to make your own things. ↗

— Clarissa Dickson Wright

#green #humor #living #truth #age

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

#brutal #cannot #culture #die #live

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more. ↗

— Richard J. Needham

#brutally #enjoys #honest #honesty #more

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

#action #brutal #character #grace #hard

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality. ↗

— Wallace Shawn

#become #brutality #could #country #emergency

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward

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 #depressing #either #fun #have fun

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings. ↗

— John Blair

#brutality #psychology #than #worse