Brutes Quotes
236 Brutes quotes by 187 unique authors
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
— Gerald Vizenor
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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
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Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses…
— Jonathan Mayhew
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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
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The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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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
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The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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As we to the brutes, poets are to us.
— George Meredith
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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
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I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.
— Warren G. Harding
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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
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Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
— Thomas Huxley
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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
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A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
— Steve McConnell
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The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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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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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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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give…
— Rudolf Rocker
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People take it for granted that the physical world is both ordered and intelligible. The underlying order in nature - the laws of physics -…
— Paul Davies
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The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
— Bertrand Russell
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Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
— Dan Savage
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic…
— William Winwood Reade
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One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads…
— Aaron Ross
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Chicks who dig home runs aren't the ones who appeal to me. I think there's sexiness in infield hits because they require technique. I'd rather…
— Ichiro Suzuki
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Always assume that your opponent is going to be bigger, stronger and faster than you; so that you learn to rely on technique, timing and…
— Helio Gracie
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