Brutes Quote by Barry Commoner

“The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.” quote by Barry Commoner — Download Open image

“The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need.”

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Sooner or later, wittingly or unwittingly, we must pay for every intrusion on the natural environment.

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Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

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Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

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War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.…

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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…

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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…

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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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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…

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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…

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