Brutes Quote by William James

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 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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Amelia Barr

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

— Aung San Suu Kyi

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary,…

— Criss Jami

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

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they…

— Lydia M. Child

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's…

— Anonymous

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians…

— Gottfried Leibniz