Brutes Quotes

236 Brutes quotes by 187 unique authors

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort. — Leigh Newman
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily… — Mahatma Gandhi
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi
Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's… — Thomas Otway
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. — Saadi
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes. — Robert Browning
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need. — John Dryden
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and… — Paula Fox
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
Brutes leave ingratitude to man. — Charles Caleb Colton
The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. — Isaac Newton
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
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. — Jonathan Swift
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 brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is… — John Dryden
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
My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders.… — Buffalo Bill

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