Brutes Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Brutes are deprived of the high advantages which we have; but they have some which we have not. They have not our hopes, but…

— Baron de Montesquieu

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

— Amelia Barr

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.

— William James

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,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Wars and crises turn almost all men into brutes.

— Mariana Fulger

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

— Oscar Wilde

Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely in the…

— William James

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then…

— Benjamin Jealous