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Brute Quotes
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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. - Simone Weil Quotes
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. - William Cobbett Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
\"Charm\" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a womans strength just as strength is a mans charm. - Henry Ellis Quotes
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. - George Combe Quotes
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called Facts . They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. - Thomas Hobbes Quotes
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. - Jose Marti Quotes
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Mans nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. - Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
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 Quotes
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. - Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. - Lord Chesterfield Quotes
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. - Gilbert K Chesterton Quotes
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. - Max Eastman Quotes
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson 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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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