Brutes Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The brute is an imperfect animal compared to man who is a perfect beast.

— Vikrant Parsai

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

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

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

— Amelia Barr

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Today the manliest man would be ashamed to look into the eyes of the woman by his side and tell her that he is…

— Mary C. Ames

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

— Edward Young

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

“He who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men. He who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns…

— Plotinus

“If the fact that brutes abstract not be made the distinguishing property of that sort of animal, I fear a great many of those…

— Bishop Berkeley

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

— Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits