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Tag Name "Brute" (157)

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Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
Dalai Lama
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.
Pythagoras
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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'
Rich Lowry
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True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.
Mahatma Gandhi
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A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
Robert A. Heinlein
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The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.
Malcolm X
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I bet you’re not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute?
J. K. Rowling
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The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.
Mark Hopkins
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Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
Jesse Jackson
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The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.
Markus Zusak
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For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need.
John Dryden
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Do not admire the warriors do not admire the fighters condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent applaud the peaceful despise the brute force!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral degenerate who grants to others the right to force his mind.
John Galt
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Snow, get behind me! Charming shouted as he leaped to his feet. I'll handle this brute. Billy, the teacher cried. This is the twenty-first century, Women don't need the white knight routine anymore. I can fight my own battles.
Michael Buckley
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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.
Joseph Addison
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The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
Mike Huckabee
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No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
Kenneth Grahame
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