Brutes Quotes

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Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

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

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.

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.

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Exterminate all the brutes!

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

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

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, indeed, is what mainly distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.