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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
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.
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force.
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.
I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
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.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
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.
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.
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realise that they need not fear brute force, if they but know the soul within.
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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.
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
My natural abilities weren't necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routines of maintaining it.
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.
I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.
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.
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!
The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
Red of the Dawn
Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay
The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free?
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force.
