“The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.” FreedomFourLettersOppositesConventionsHollowClicheBrutalityFour Letter Words Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse toward sadism and brutality... Not merely did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around somebody's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.” KnowsWayHumansWarEnjoyNaturalSecretBehindsNiceKillingImpulsePianoNecksWireBrutalityVery NiceSadismNooses Author:Paul Fussell
“The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.” NextHoursOppositesTransformedBrutalityOne Hour Author:Thomas Bernhard
“Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.” WorldWellsFilmPowerfulVisionRichBuildingDirectorsFantasticNarrativeFaithfulThemeExcessAdaptationBrutalityCapitolGary Author:Suzanne Collins
“We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.” ThreeDrugAlcoholInnocenceExhaustedBrutalityDrugs And AlcoholArtificeStimulants Author:Joni Mitchell
“HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.” IfsMadeWholeFilmHatePoliceMade ItMaking MoneyPolice BrutalityBrutalityHood Author:Mathieu Kassovitz