"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in……" — Nikos Kazantzakis

More Brutish Quotes

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• Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. — Thomas Carlyle
• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot… — Charlie Chaplin
• War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. — Alexander Berkman
• Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes
• War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. It degrades and stupefies with the sense that you… — Alexander Berkman
• Today is the first day of the rest of your short, brutish existence as a sentient creature before being snuffed… — Matt Groening
• Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish.… — Bill Gates
• To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual… — Isaac Watts
• The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons
• But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons… — John T. Flynn
• Of all the animals on earth, none is so brutish as man when he seeks the delirium of coition. — Edward Dahlberg
• Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy. — Jacob M. Appel

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