Brute Quotes

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Ayn Rand
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wise Experience Stupid Minds Brute Instinct Instructed Average Reason Necessity
God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. Isaac Newton
Love God World Honor Made Parents Other Our Worship Ourselves Neighbours Temperate Beasts Brute Merciful Him Masters Governs Just To Love Us Even Peaceable
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
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles. H. P. Lovecraft
Nature Man Will Long Beast Sleeps Beneath Slight Must Only Civilisation Remain Remains Brute He Lightly Principles Deal Genuine Ready Scientifically Dominant Same Realise Which Using Awake Element Ever Biological Preserve
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. Thomas Carlyle
Faith World Kings Only Brute Brute Force Force Persuasion
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Thomas Hobbes
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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
Unfair Unbearable About Something Brute Brute Force Force Intellect Hitting Quite Stand Use Reason Below
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' Vladimir Putin
Democracy You Together World Increasingly Solely Slogan See Relying Brute Brute Force Force Around Model America Either Against Us Coalition Millions
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. Mahatma Gandhi
Love Nature You Man Evil Human Nature Despair Has-Been Must Brute Never Known Been Yield Human Essentially Influence Love You
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. Alan Kay
Today Integrity Other Software Top Thousands Structural Brute Brute Force Pyramid Like Most Force Piled Very Done Egyptian Just Much Bricks Each Millions Slaves
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. Blaise Pascal
Man Thought Would Would-Be Brute He Head Conceive Feet Well Without Hands Stone Cannot
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. Edgar Allan Poe
Love Friendship Man Heart Something Directly Brute Unselfish Had Mere Occasion Him Frequent Test Goes Which Fidelity Who Paltry
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. Tom Stoppard
Future Good You Generation Lie Paradise Leader Cowardice Down Enough Adolescence Brute Brute Force Sacrifices Wrong Force Felt Huge Wheels Ask Sentimental Your Notion Right
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth You Speak Witness Grass Alive All Things Seem Bear Brute Vouchers Underground Stir Very Move Roots Things
Wen wu contradicts the very American notion of John Wayne being the ideal of manhood. In the wen wu way of thinking, it's much more important to restrain rather than exert yourself through brute power. Alex Tizon
Yourself Power Important Thinking Way Wayne John Restrain Rather More John Wayne Through Brute Ideal Exert Very Than American Being Manhood Much Notion
We may fight terrorism through brute force, but the terror that is unleashed in the name of religion can only be challenged through moral courage. Asma Jahangir
Religion Terrorism Fight Courage Unleashed Moral Moral Courage Only Through Brute Brute Force Name Force Terror May Challenged
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. Christopher Hitchens
You World Medicine Too Considerably Weaker Physical Physical World Could Brute Leave Then Many Things
If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. Edmund Husserl
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! George Bernard Shaw
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Miles Flannery - he's a beast. Very talented, but a brute. He's one of three guys who help us keep the shop maintained, help us set up on location and assist in building something if time is short. Jamie Hyneman
Time Three Beast Building Location Something Guys Brute He Maintained Talented Up Very Shop Short Us Miles Help Who Keep Assist Set
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. Jane Porter
You Dance Will Lose Slip Ring Bear Through Brute Sort Mob Nose Hold While Turn Should Your Even
When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page. John Edgar Wideman
Work Time Best Morning Me Down Best Time Brute Stuff Doing Get Page Early
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. Jose Marti
Man Duty Living State Must Wing Brute He Powers Leave
When in doubt, use brute force. Ken Thompson
Doubt Brute Brute Force Force When In Doubt Use
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. Mahatma Gandhi
Welcome East Would Brute Brute Force Force West Provided Heartily Union Based
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