Top 93 Quotes About Brutes
#1. Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness.
E. M. Forster
#2. me an explanation, first, of the towering eccentricity of man among the brutes; second, of the vast human tradition of some ancient happiness; third, of the partial perpetuation of such pagan joy
G.K. Chesterton
#3. 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
#4. Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
Kenneth Grahame
#5. O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Thomas Otway
#6. Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
Jean De La Fontaine
#7. We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.
John Flavel
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be
Elbert Hubbard
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. "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
#16. 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. 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
#19. Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
Jonathan Swift
#20. Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Lord Byron
#21. Humans are petty monsters by nature and big brutes by social causes.
Zoran Zekovic
#22. 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
#23. War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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.
#27. You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.
Marcel Proust
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
Ayn Rand
#32. Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Jonathan Swift
#33. Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
Aldous Huxley
#34. Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. Men in England are ruled, at this minute by the clock, by brutes who refuse them bread, by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern, and therefore wish to enslave.
G.K. Chesterton
#36. The first essential character [of civilization], I should say, is forethought. This, I would say, is what distinguishes men from brutes and adults from children.
Bertrand Russell
#37. There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind to the level of brutes. They are the sworn and sinister agents of Beelzebub, who yearns to conquer the world, and has his eye especially upon Tennessee.]
H.L. Mencken
#38. I said it was a brutal thing.
No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it,
Mark Twain
#39. The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.
Rebecca Solnit
#40. Oh woman! lovely woman! nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you; Angels are painted fair to look like you; There's in you all that we believe of heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Thomas Otway
#41. Well, it certainly is for men, because large numbers of men living together can easily become like wild animals. Men are brutes at heart, and without the civilising influence of women they quickly revert to savagery.
Jennifer Worth
#42. What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
Ford Madox Ford
#44. Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you undo him.
William James
#46. Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.
Ayn Rand
#47. Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
#48. A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#49. Free folk and kneelers are more alike than not, Jon Snow. Men are men and women women, no matter which side of the Wall we were born on. Good men and bad, heroes and villains, men of honor, liars, cravens, brutes ... we have plenty, as do you.
George R R Martin
#50. But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.
Fanny Kemble
#51. Without education ... what is man but a splendid slave, a reasoning savage vacillating between the dignity of an intelligence derived from God and the degradation of passion participated with brutes ...
Chukwudifu Oputa
#52. Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
Jean Giraudoux
#53. Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes
Dan Savage
#55. Nothing is gained except by sacrifice ... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes ... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?
Swami Vivekananda
#56. A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
Steve McConnell
#57. When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.
Amelia Barr
#58. [He] saw communism for the sham that it was
a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
Vince Flynn
#59. The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.
Paul Gauguin
#61. Mr. Kent raised his brows. "What are they asking?"
"For me to heal a little girl."
"My God, the brutes, the monsters," he mocked.
Tarun Shanker
#62. wild men in wild places, fighting cold, heat, starvation, thirst, barrenness, facing the elements in all their ferocity, usually retrograded, descended to the savage, lost all heart and soul and became mere brutes.
Zane Grey
#64. The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#65. My arms have mutinied against me - brutes!
My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,
My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.
Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.
Wilfred Owen
#66. I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.
Paula Fox
#67. Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.
Christopher Morley
#68. My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
Buffalo Bill
#69. If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
Charles Caleb Colton
#70. For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
Henry David Thoreau
#71. Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings ... All men need guilt feelings.
Pope Benedict XVI
#72. She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful.
C.S. Lewis
#73. The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
John Dryden
#74. Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Gottfried Leibniz
#75. There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman Melville
#76. Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
Isaac Watts
#77. This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.
Moby
#78. The worship of God is ... the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
John Calvin
#79. Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes."
Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart.
Shana Abe
#80. The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
Raheel Farooq
#81. How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed
to any other qualities than those of brutes.
Aleister Crowley
#82. Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
#83. There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
Norman Mailer
#84. The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
Charles Godfrey Leland
#85. As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly.
H.L. Mencken
#86. Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.
Cesare Pavese
#87. I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
Julianna Baggott
#88. Do you know," he said, "there are men who would like very much to see me dead. Powerful men. Obscenely wealthy me. Men who can afford to be patient and engage the services of large, ruthless brutes. I've managed to evade them all. But you ... God's truth, I think you'll be the very death of me.
Tessa Dare
#89. Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
H. Jay Dinshah
#90. To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected
Thomas Paine
#92. For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
Henry Ward Beecher
#93. 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
