Brutes Quote by John Derbyshire

“For over twenty-five centuries we’ve been bearing the weight of superb and heterogeneous civilizations, all from outside, none made by ourselves, none that we…

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

“You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions…

— Octave Mirbeau

“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a…

— Charles Mackay

“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a mass. Transformed…

— Saul Bellow

“...throughout history the community of readers has been prey to sinister forces - to pedants and priests, legislators and lunatics, deities and demagogues. You…

— James K. Morrow

“I don’t know what sort of savagery your ‘barbarian’ people instilled, but christening yourself war-like seems the height of narcissistic delusion. Let me enlighten…

— Clayton Kinnelon Greiman

Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that…

— John Henry Newman

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to…

— Emma Goldman

“Beauty! Art! Wit! Wonderment! Humility! Arrogance! Style! Virtue! Decency! Patience! And all the others, Gone, trampled by the Newly-polished jack boots Of the clog-suited…

— Alec Wilder

We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless…

— H. P. Blavatsky

And dead an epoch of our existence, which in a world destined to humiliate us was moral light and resistance.

— Pier Paolo Pasolini