Brute Quotes

190 Brute quotes by 153 unique authors

Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the… — Ronald Reagan
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation... — Edmund Burke
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate… — D. H. Lawrence
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against… — Sigmund Freud
Without doubt God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. He directs angels,… — Joseph de Maistre
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. — Lennox Lewis
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much… — Peter Watts
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. — Norman Mailer
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting… — Bruce Lee
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance. — Mike Huckabee
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. — Robert A. Heinlein
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and… — Garry Kasparov
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. — John Dewey
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where… — Ross Douthat
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is… — Mahatma Gandhi
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these… — Edmund Husserl
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that… — Frederick Douglass
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.… — Adin Ballou
The SEALs place a premium on brute strength, but there's an even bigger premium on speed. That's speed through the water, speed over the ground,… — Marcus Luttrell
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity. — Warren G. Harding
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train… — Pierre Trudeau
These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… — Catherynne M. Valente
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. — Steve McConnell
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker

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