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- 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… — 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… — Alexander Berkman
- Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed out into… — 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… — Bill Gates
- To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is… — 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… — 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