Brutalized Quotes

You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppressed in Iraq, ... Their accounts range from being brutalized to being shot, and in some cases, the exiles say their family members have been murdered. - Bob Stern

We didn't want them brutalized or mistreated. For them to go that morning knowing what we had in mind took a lot of courage. - Clarence Graham

Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts. - Chris Hedges

They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land. - Hamid Karzai

They all lived in constant fear. He brutalized her for 27 years. He didn't just snap last week. - Jacob Atwood

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled. - Ida B. Wells

The face of terrorism in Iraq is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi brutalized, tortured, and killed thousands of innocent people, forcing Iraqis to live in fear. The Iraqi people finally had enough, and gave up his whereabouts to the Iraqi security forces. - Tim Murphy

The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized. - Alva Myrdal