#brutal

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#brutal #gestures #making #men #precise

One time I took my knife and sliced off the end of a hog’s nose, just like a piece of salami. The hog went crazy for a few seconds. Then it sat there looking kind of stupid. So I took a handful of salt and rubbed it on the wound. Now that hog really went nuts. It was my way of taking out frustration. Another time, there was a live hog in the pit. It hadn’t done anything wrong, wasn’t even running around. It was just alive. I took a three-foot chunk of pipe and I literally beat that hog to death. It was like I started hitting the hog and I couldn’t stop. And when I finally did stop, I’d expended all this energy and frustration, and I’m thinking what in God’s sweet name did I do. ↗

— Gail A. Eisnitz

#brutality #cruelty #frustration #meat #pigs

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

I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back. ↗

— Tatum O'Neal

#brutality #fought #i #mental #overcome

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic sense of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of elegant brutality which appealed. No, I think he came pretty much off the page. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#brutal #brutality #came #elegant #found

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality. ↗

— Ric Ocasek

#mind #never #past #see #world

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#between #brutal #differences #end #governments

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

— Andre Malraux

#age #always #been #brutal #however

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