Brutality quotes
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"In a time in which Communist regimes have been rightfully discredited and yet alternatives to neoliberal capitalist societies are unwisely dismissed, I defend the fundamental claim of Marxist theory: there must be countervailing forces that defend people's needs against the brutality of profit driven capitalism."
"Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot."
"The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization."
"Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard."
"There are two things that have always haunted me: the brutality of the European traders and the stories I've heard about Africans selling other Africans into slavery."
"It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements."
"In her smile, Idris sees how little of the world he has known, even at thirty-five years of age, its savageness, its cruelty, its boundless brutality."
"Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world"
"In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists."
