You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such…

Wars and crises turn almost all men into brutes.

— Mariana Fulger

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

“Why should anyone be surprised at what the men "in power" are capable of --didn't every mad-Judas one of them begin his career by…

— Kenneth Patchen

I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable…

— Henry David Thoreau

Society teaches boys not to cry or show their feelings, then act surprised when some men act heartless.

— Anonymous

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure…

— Marcel Proust

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on…

— Doyle Brunson

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous…

— Ambrose Bierce

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only…

— Jack London

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.…

— William Winwood Reade

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

— William Jennings Bryan

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

— William Shakespeare