Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump basically share a policy of brute military strength. And both, I think, make a lot of Americans… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
