Brutes I O Quotes

#1. Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Charles Caleb Colton

#2. For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

Rudyard Kipling

#3. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand

#4. Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Francis Bacon

#5. The dogs looked sad as they were nudged from the back of the car. They were big, red brutes with kind eyes. Their ears dropped below their noses. Bloodhounds don't like to hunt man.

James H. Street

#6. You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.

Marcel Proust

#7. 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.

Aristotle.

#8. Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

Robert Smythe Hichens

#9. We love each other like brutes. Gorgeously
and twilled. Any geography is hard. The skin
ends where skin ends.
It's mapless. I want to be borrowed, to be
assembled, again. To feel a tug on the other
side of the string.

Kimberly Grey

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Thus, within Linnaean terminology, a female characteristic (the lactating mamma) ties humans to brutes, while a traditionally male characteristic (reason) marks our separateness.

Londa Schiebinger

#12. Humans are petty monsters by nature and big brutes by social causes.

Zoran Zekovic

#13. Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Lord Byron

#14. Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

Jonathan Swift

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

Swami Vivekananda

#16. Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.

E. M. Forster

#17. The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

Isaac Newton

#18. "Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. 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

#20. I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

Laird Barron

#21. So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

John Locke

#22. The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be

Elbert Hubbard

#23. Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes.

Roberto Calasso

#24. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

Eliphas Levi

#25. The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an honour to them not to me!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

John Flavel

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

Jean De La Fontaine

#28. O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.

Thomas Otway

#29. Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Kenneth Grahame

#30. Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge