Brute Quotes

190 quotes by 153 authors

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but… — Alan Kay
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball… — Eric Liu
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. — Jose Marti
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. — Vladimir Nabokov
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. — Blaise Pascal
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion… — Edgar Allan Poe
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens… — Ayn Rand
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play… — Will Self
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute… — Lysander Spooner
Nothing made by brute force lasts. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no… — Simone Weil
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. — Oscar Wilde
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute… — Henry David Thoreau
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She… — Nicole Krauss
I dream of a true husbandâ€”a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle… — A.A. Attanasio
It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them… — Rick Bragg
Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting… — Agatha Christie
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 accident… — Joseph Conrad
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. — Maya Angelou

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