Brute Quotes

190 Brute quotes by 153 unique authors

Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be… — Paul Davies
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities… — Nicholson Baker
If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind… — John Galt
Not only our eternal salvation depends upon our willingness and capacity to forgive wrongs committed against us. Our joy and satisfaction in this life, and… — Marion D. Hanks
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . .… — Francois Fenelon
LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents.… — Ambrose Bierce
For thence a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And… — Robert Browning
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring… — Jane Porter
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends… — Criss Jami
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. — St. Jerome
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. — Baltasar Gracian
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and… — Christopher Hitchens
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
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

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