Kate Millett Quotes

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

The world is always terrible.

I cannot bear to live where there is so much injustice and I cannot do something about it. What kind of a torturous life is that?

DEMON MATH What is JUST in a world you've ripped in two as if there could be a half for me a half for you what is FAIR when there is nothing left to share what is YOURS when your pain is mine to bear this sad math is mine this mad path is mine subtract they say don't cry back to the desk try forget addition multiply and i reply this is why remainders hate division.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

If there is something occurring that is so bad that it could be considered a crime against humanity, it has to be transmitted with anguish, with pain, and create an impact in people - upset them, shake them up, wake them out of their everyday routine.

I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The real world is horrible.

It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath.

Those who tortured me had no right to inflict such humiliation on a human being, physically upon my person, and morally upon themselves.

Social change can be painful for all involved—oppressor and oppressed.