Quotes of: Brute Keyword

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Stephen Baker

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Max Eastman

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Baltasar Gracian

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.

Rand Paul

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

George Bancroft

You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.

Clyde DeSouza

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

Vladimir Nabokov

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Jose Marti

Our greater beastliness lies not in a penchant for brute force,but in our greater corruption, nihilism, and decadence; in our servitude to the overwhelming systems we create; in the sociopathic rationalism we adopt to master natural forces and to com...

Rants Within The Undead God

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.

Blindsight

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

The Book Thief

I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err...being or whatever it is you are, person!" she fumbled.

Magnificence

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.

Liberalism

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman’s tenderness.

The Longest Journey

One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.

Pebble in the Sky

Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

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

Herman Melville

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Thomas Hobbes