Brutish Quotes

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.