Brute Quotes

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

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

A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

half militarist, half gangster

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

Just in terms of when I got the script, the character I probably liked the least was Big Foster. Because even though he was central to the story and to that world, he was really written to be kind of a brute, a pig, a completely black-and-white bad guy.

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.

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.