Brutes Quotes

236 Brutes quotes by 187 unique authors

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
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
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
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu
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 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
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. — George Meredith
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
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
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
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
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
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
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
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
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
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes — Dan Savage
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
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
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
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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