Brute Quotes

190 quotes by 153 authors

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force — Vladimir Putin
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction… — David Von Drehle
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. — Charles Baudelaire
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with… — L. Neil Smith
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. — Ayn Rand
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… — William Godwin
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
Charm" â€” which means the power to effect work without employing brute force â€” is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as… — Havelock Ellis
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. — Ludwig von Mises
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort. — Leigh Newman
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily… — Mahatma Gandhi
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. — Saadi
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need. — John Dryden
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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