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Etu Brute! -- Gaius Iulius Caesar
Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!) -- William Shakespeare
You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.] -- Julius Caesar
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. -- Dalai Lama
Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute Brute heart of a brute like you. -- Sylvia Plath
Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process. -- Bryant McGill
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... -- Anthony Gregory
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. -- Mahatma Gandhi
But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain. -- Thomas Paine
Red of the Dawn Is it turning a fainter red? so be it, but when shall we lay The ghost of the Brute that is walking and hammering us yet and be free? -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it. -- Cassandra Clare
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids. -- David Von Drehle
When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
Nothing made by brute force lasts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. -- Thomas Carlyle
The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. -- George Santayana
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. -- Baltasar Gracian
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. -- Thomas Hobbes
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. -- Philip Stanhope
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. -- William Winwood Reade
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. -- Stephen Baker
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
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. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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. -- Blaise Pascal
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone. -- Rand Paul
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence. -- Nicholson Baker
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. -- Tina Brown
'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. -- Havelock Ellis
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. -- Alan Kay
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' -- Vladimir Putin
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. -- Edgar Allan Poe
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. -- Margaret Cavendish
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. -- Ayn Rand
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. -- Tom Stoppard
Intelligence won wars, not brute force. -- Rick Riordan
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. -- Edward Young
If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. -- Hugo Chavez
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort. -- Leigh Newman
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. -- Oscar Wilde
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength. -- Jean de La Fontaine
London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you. -- Robert Smythe Hichens
True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. -- George Bernard Shaw
Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. -- John Milton
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For danger levels man and brute And all are fellows in their need. -- John Dryden
Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. -- Lennox Lewis
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. -- Craig Ferguson
In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant. -- Mahatma Gandhi
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I bet you're not dangerous at all, are you? Are you, you great ugly brute? -- J. K. Rowling
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. -- Peter Watts
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. -- Steve McConnell
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation... -- Edmund Burke
What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things? -- William Jennings Bryan
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. -- St. Jerome
We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength. -- Monica Dickens
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life. -- Clyde DeSouza
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. -- John Gierach
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute. -- John Adams
Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36) -- Markus Zusak
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. -- Lord Chesterfield
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. -- Lord Chesterfield
I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity. -- Warren G. Harding
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. -- Kenneth Grahame
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. -- Max Eastman
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. -- Ayn Rand
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. -- Gerald Vizenor
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs. -- Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed -- Morihei Ueshiba
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force -- Vladimir Putin
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. -- William Cobbett
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. -- Helio Gracie
In the faculty of speech man excels the brute; but if thou utterest what is improper, the brute is they superior. -- Saadi
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense. -- Dante Alighieri
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance. -- Mike Huckabee
Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou
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
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. -- Jose Marti
My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself. -- Guy De la Valdene
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
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
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. -- Philip Stanhope
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. -- John Dewey
It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society. -- Henry David Thoreau
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason. -- Isaac Asimov
Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven. -- Jerry Falwell
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. -- Ludwig von Mises
The gap between brute power and human need continues to grow, as the power fattens on the same faulty technology that intensifies the need. -- Barry Commoner
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! -- Rafael Sabatini
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed. -- Hedwig Dohm
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. -- Charles Baudelaire
What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government. -- Walter E. Williams
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty. -- Henry Ward Beecher
For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization. -- Mary Parker Follett
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness. -- Boris Pasternak
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
Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath. -- Laird Barron
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
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. -- George Bancroft
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things. -- George Gilder
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. -- Neville Chamberlain

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