Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they…

The greatest determinant of greatness is going to be our ability to collaborate with others who have pieces of the puzzle we don't.

— Jay Abraham

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

— William Shakespeare

When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or…

— African Spir

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Anonymous

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

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark…

— Frederick Douglass