Brute Quotes

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.

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

When in doubt, use brute force.

To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

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

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

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.

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 mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

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

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

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