Quotes of: Brute Keyword

Miracle Max: Go away or I'll call the Brute Squad. Fezzik: I'm on the Brute Squad. Miracle Max: [sees Fezzik] You *are* the Brute Squad!

The Princess Bride

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Amelia Barr

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

William Cobbett

When in doubt, use brute force.

Ken Thompson

Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

The Staff of Serapis

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Thomas Carlyle

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis

Andrew McAfee

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

Oscar Wilde

Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

Royal Pains: A Rogues' Gallery of Brats, Brutes, and Bad Seeds

Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are mostly led by their impulses, appetites and passions. The true nobility of our nature is evinced by se...

Joseph P. Bradley

It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that this atom should embrace in its organization, and evolve...

David Brewster

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

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not g...

Mahatma Gandhi

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

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

Jonathan Swift

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, as far as our necessities will admit; for we cannot exist long without the destruction of other animal or vegetable beings either in their mature or em...

A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

William Winwood Reade