My arms have mutinied against me brutes! My fingers fidget like ten idle brats, My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows,… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork And drive the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men should not labor foolishly like brutes, but the brain and the body should always, or as much as possible, work and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority),… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes,… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive… — Guy De la Valdene Copy Share Image
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know, namely that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image