[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
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in… — Henry David Thoreau 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
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force,… — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more… — H. Jay Dinshah Copy Share Image
Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on… — Helio Gracie Copy Share Image
"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is gained except by sacrifice… Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes… Make yourselves decent men! ... Be… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical… — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.… — Joseph de Maistre 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
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life; cunning is a kind of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very hearts, and sickens us so much at cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but… — A.A. Attanasio Copy Share Image