"The mere brute pleasure of reading - the……" — Lord Chesterfield

More Brute Quotes

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. — Thomas Carlyle
• A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast:… — Margaret Cavendish
• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the… — Lord Chesterfield
• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the… — Anthony Gregory
• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the… — D. H. Lawrence
• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his… — Kano Jigoro
• Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame
• I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that… — Charles Darwin
• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in… — Mahatma Gandhi
• Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to… — Ayn Rand

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