Brutes Quotes

Exterminate all brutes.

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

I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

My worst preconception of their appearance and their ignorance did not fall as low as their actual stupidity ... They appear to be nothing more than moving masses of flesh unendowed with anything of intelligence above the brutes

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

The knowledge of past events... forms a main difference between brutes and rational creatures

Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

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

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

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

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.