We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength. — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding. — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation... — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
As far as feminism is concerned ... the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may… — Kano Jigoro Copy Share Image
Tocqueville saw the brute repression of deviants as a necessity if men were to keep convincing themselves of their collective dignity through… — Richard Sennett Copy Share Image
Listening (had there been any one to listen) from the upper rooms of the empty house only gigantic chaos streaked with lightning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
It is rather an unpleasant fact, that the ugliest and awkwardest of brute animals have the greatest resemblance to man: the monkey… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
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