#brutal

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

#abuse #attacking #brutal #child #child abuse

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#citizens #freeing #illusion #nation #occupation

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#brutal #desperate #expression #form #hear

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

#awful #brutal #certain #certain time #definite

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#age #always #been #brutal #however

The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings. ↗

— John Blair

#brutality #psychology #than #worse

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. ↗

— Hamid Karzai

#brutalized #criminals #destroyed #killed #land

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#country #his #humanity #most #pacifist

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality. ↗

— Al Sharpton

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

#am #bit #brutal #drives #feel