Brutes Quotes

236 Brutes quotes by 187 unique authors

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. — Swami Vivekananda
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at… — Henry David Thoreau
We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks,… — Rich Lowry
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not… — Pope Benedict XVI
A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished,… — Victor Hugo
When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out… — Ayn Rand
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in… — Swami Vivekananda
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of… — George Gilder
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force — Vladimir Putin
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction… — David Von Drehle
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. — Charles Baudelaire
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with… — L. Neil Smith
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. — Jean Giraudoux
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and… — Eliphas Levi
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. — Ayn Rand
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force,… — William Godwin
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties but only brute… — Frantz Fanon
Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as… — Havelock Ellis
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. — Ludwig von Mises
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules… — Henry David Thoreau

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