“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand 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
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
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
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of the word; they have not… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this:… — John Henry Newman 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
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