Brutish Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle
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
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes
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
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
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
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
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons
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
Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy. — Jacob M. Appel
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
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. — Juvenal
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
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
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
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. — Herbert Read
Thatâ€™s the thing with the young these days, isnâ€™t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile… — Nick Hornby
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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