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
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
It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by… — Rex Stout 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
The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
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
When an old man and a young man work together, it can make an ugly sight or a pretty one, depending on… — Russell Banks 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
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the… — Diana Wynne Jones 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
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
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach Copy Share Image