What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!'… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration… — Jerry Falwell Copy Share Image
“A true warrior,” she said, “does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they… — Doyle Brunson Copy Share Image
It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those… — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or… — Charles Thomas Newton Copy Share Image
The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only.… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?"… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image