A Quote by Edward Young

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Edward Young

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Brute He Man Man Quite

Quote Author

Edward Young
English - Poet
July 3, 1683 - April 5, 1765

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

Oscar Wilde

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

In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior.

Saadi

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

Norman Mailer

Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you.

Sylvia Plath

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 no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Mark Twain

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

Pythagoras

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 greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jose Marti

Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

John Adams

The best of man is he who blushes when you praise him and remains silent when you defame him.

Khalil Gibran

It rasped her, though, to have stirring about in her this brutal monster! to hear twigs cracking and feel hooves planted down in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul; never to be content quite, or quite secure, for at any moment the brute would be stirring, this hatred.