Brutish Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
— Charlie Chaplin
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
— Alexander Berkman
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Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
— Thomas Hobbes
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you are not responsible, that 'tis…
— Alexander Berkman
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Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into utter nothingness for…
— Matt Groening
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't…
— Bill Gates
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the…
— Isaac Watts
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
— Stella Gibbons
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition.
— Edward Dahlberg
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Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
— Jacob M. Appel
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths…
— Federica Montseny
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They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
— Juvenal
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You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless,…
— Rachel Carson
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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more…
— Ron Fournier
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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
— Herbert Read
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men…
— Thomas Hobbes
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