“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”
D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoretician
Chap. V, The Period of Dictatorship <br class="br">"Hitlerism and Social Democracy" (1934) https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1934/hitler/index.htm
“The world goes on, stupid and brutal, but I do not. Can't you see? I do not.”
Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution
Variant: It goes on, this world, stupid and brutal.
But I do not. do not.
Source: Revolution
Susie Bright (1958) American writer and feminist
" Bright Ideas http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/qa/multi_1/documents/04461778.asp", interview by Tamara Wieder, Boston Phoenix, February 11, 2005.
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Address to the United Nations (1964)
Context: We speak out to put the world on guard against what is happening in South Africa. The brutal policy of apartheid is applied before the eyes of the nations of the world. The peoples of Africa are compelled to endure the fact that on the African continent the superiority of one race over another remains official policy, and that in the name of this racial superiority murder is committed with impunity. Can the United Nations do nothing to stop this?
Dave Leduc (1991) Canadian Lethwei fighter (born 1991)
Leduc talking about Lethwei in A royal portrait: Dave Leduc https://thebodylockmma.com/lethwei/a-royal-portrait-dave-leduc-king-of-lethwei/ (July 30, 2019) <br class="br">On Lethwei