Brutes Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brutes Civilization Default Doe Winning
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
Of all nations, those submit to civilization with the most difficulty which habitually live by the chase. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an achievement not a gift; it is always besieged, must constantly be defended, and once lost, is immeasurably difficult to reclaim. We… — Roger Kimball Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long… — Ayn Rand 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… — Jack London Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous 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, one with… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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
