Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me.… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating… — Patrick O'Brian 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
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince.… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
