Bear Quote by Jonathan Swift

Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a…

— Jonathan Swift

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or…

— African Spir

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with…

— Thomas Huxley

The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Anonymous

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on…

— Doyle Brunson

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous…

— Ambrose Bierce

In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only…

— Jack London

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.…

— William Winwood Reade