Peter V. Brett Quotes

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

Guerillas are cruel to the weak and cowardly in the face of the brave.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Bullies are always cowards.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

We can not, we just must not, tolerate the sway of violent men among us. We must not permit men who are filled with hatred, and careless of innocent lives, to dominate our streets and fill our homes with fear.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the stake.

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.