Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of… — Anonymous 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
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani,… — Swami Vivekananda 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
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders.… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this,… — John Locke Copy Share Image
It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation… — David Von Drehle Copy Share Image
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood! — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. — Max Eastman 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
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Men were sometimes comforters and often brutes but they were always puzzles,” — Noah Gordon 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
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“To reason with governments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
You are inhuman brutes determined to rob us of our spiritual consolations and sweep away the moral foundations of our civilization, and… — John Derbyshire Copy Share Image
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Lustful Desire (although 'twere rather fit To some brute creature to attribute it) Shall be presented in the second place, Because it… — George Wither 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
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on… — Charles Nicolle Copy Share Image
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