Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the WAR ended, they were forced to move back. And at the macro LEVEL, the Taiwanese had every REASON to cheer when the Japanese LEFT. The Japanese military could OFTEN be incredibly brutal. The Taiwanese lived as second-class citizens on their own land.

It SETS its FACE rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who SEEK to SOLVE the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction.

Russia is TOUGH. The history, the land, the people - BRUTAL.

A quarter of America is a DRAMATIC, TENSE, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of BRUTAL, physiological vitality, and that is the America that I have really loved and love. But a GOOD half of it is a country of boredom, emptiness, monotony, brainless PRODUCTION, and brainless consumption, and this is the American inferno.

He has such a patronizing tone and manner, and such a sarcastic SENSE of humor. I found him rather brutal, a kind of ELEGANT BRUTALITY which appealed. No, I THINK he came pretty much off the PAGE.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more BRUTAL than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not CRAZY about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be NASTY about it, and you don't have to be PUBLIC about it.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being DIFFERENT when you're a CHILD is ALWAYS a CHALLENGE.

I remember being with my MUM EATING marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector GADGET,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

This game can be brutal. As soon as you GET COMFORTABLE, it bites you. You have to STAY on it all the TIME.

Our 21st-century world is an incredibly dangerous one. Between BRUTAL civil WARS, VIOLENT extremism, SPREADING autocracy, rising inequality, territorial expansionism, election interference, and nuclear proliferation, our policymakers have their hands FULL.

There is nothing whatsoever FRIENDLY about Slipknot. Corey MAY have a SINGING voice, but it's always been done with so much passion that it's always been BRUTAL.

In South Africa in 1987, APARTHEID was STILL going strong. Some of the most BRUTAL race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet been repealed. There was still a lot of TENSION.

I don't WANT to MAKE an ALBUM which is FULL of BRUTAL and jarring techno.

At the TIME, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty BRUTAL, but in hindsight it's GREAT and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.