Brutes Quotes

236 Brutes quotes by 187 unique authors

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends… — Criss Jami
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. — Mahatma Gandhi
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. — Baltasar Gracian
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and… — Christopher Hitchens
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. — Thomas Hobbes
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but… — Alan Kay
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball… — Eric Liu
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. — Jose Marti
There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. — Herman Melville
To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute. — Vladimir Nabokov
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. — Blaise Pascal
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion… — Edgar Allan Poe
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens… — Ayn Rand
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play… — Will Self
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute… — Lysander Spooner
Nothing made by brute force lasts. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. — Jonathan Swift
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no… — Simone Weil
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. — Oscar Wilde
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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