Top 328 Brute Quotes & Sayings

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?

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

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

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.

In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

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

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

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.

What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

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.

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.

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

Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

When in doubt, use brute force.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

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

When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.

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

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

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

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

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

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

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

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.

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

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

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

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

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

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

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

The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

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?

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

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

It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

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