Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you:… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
No general description of the mode of advance of human knowledge can be just which leaves out of account the social aspect… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Not less than two hours a day should be devoded to exercise, and weather should be little regarded. A person not sick… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation... — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. — John Adams Copy Share Image
Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James 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
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
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
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed… — Marcus Luttrell 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
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image