Brutes Quotes

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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of… — Margaret Cavendish
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. — Lord Chesterfield
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. — Lord Chesterfield
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure!… — Swami Vivekananda
Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who… — Gottfried Leibniz
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him,… — Kano Jigoro
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of… — Charles Darwin
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the… — Ayn Rand
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none. — Francis Bacon
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically… — L. Neil Smith
For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin… — Rudyard Kipling
And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a… — Charles Nicolle

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