Brute Quotes

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

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

'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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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