Brutes Quote by Amelia Barr Download Open image “When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.” — Amelia Barr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutes Men Treats
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him. — William James 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
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows… — Mahatma Gandhi 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 in the number and in the fantastic and unnecessary character of his wants, physical, moral, aesthetic, and intellectual. Had his whole life not been a quest for the superfluous, he would never have established himself as inexpugnably as… — William James Copy Share
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed. — Hedwig Dohm Copy Share Image
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you,… — Christopher Hitchens 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 the contrary,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and… — Bonnie Canino Copy Share Image
When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... the evil that comes out of your lips, into your own bosom will fall. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage! — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... money trials are not the hardest, and somehow or other, they are always overcome. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
The first step is what I like to be sure of ... to the second step it often binds you. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck. — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things? — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his… — Jack London Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share
What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on… — Doyle Brunson Copy Share Image
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the revealed law of God… then what will it be? In some form or expression it will have to be the law of man (or men) - the standard of self-law or autonomy. And when autonomous laws… — Anonymous Copy Share
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
