“We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write 'fuck' on their airplanes because it's obscene!”— John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, Marlon Brando, imdb.com
“Duchess Cecily: You should understand. He was barely eleven years old when his father died at the She-Devil's hand. Have you any idea? Jacquetta: Indeed we do. I lost my own husband and my son in a similarly brutal and senseless manner. Duchess Cecily: Are we to measure our pain against each other?…”— Lisa McGee, Duchess Cecily, Caroline Goodall, imdb.com
“All my associates, all of my surroundings, the atmosphere of deceit, treachery, brutality, degeneracy, hypocrisy, and everything that is bad and nothing that is good. Why am I what I am? I'll tell you why. I did not make myself what I am. Others had the making of me.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“Its body was carved with men and pythons and little steps were cut on one side; without these the drummer could not climb to the top to beat it. When the Ikolo was beaten for war it was decorated with skulls won in past wars. But now it sang of peace.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“I was...I am disgusted by the selfish brutality of the world, but at the same time I am utterly fascinated by it. The FBI is the perfect place for that kind of contradiction.”— Kyle Bradstreet, Dominique DiPierro, Grace Gummer, imdb.com
“To the Indians here I want to say a word of welcome. In my regiment I had a good many Indians. They were good enough to fight and to die, and they are good enough to have me treat them exactly as squarely as any white man. There are many problems in connection with them. We must save them from corru…”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Travelling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imag…”— Cesare Pavese, goodreads.com