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Exterminate all the brutes! -- Abel Korzeniowski
Brutes leave ingratitude to man. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Nothing made by brute force lasts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. -- Jonathan Swift
When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. -- Amelia Barr
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. -- Lord Chesterfield
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. -- Dante Alighieri
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. -- Max Eastman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
People who don't read are brutes. -- Eugene Ionesco
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes. -- Robert Browning
As we to the brutes, poets are to us. -- George Meredith
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. -- Ayn Rand
Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes -- Dan Savage
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes. -- Jean de La Fontaine
This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid. -- Moby
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding. -- John Flavel
Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. -- Ayn Rand
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. -- Charles Godfrey Leland
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man: we had been brutes without you. -- Thomas Otway
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Who can . . . guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes? -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. -- Lord Byron
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
[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
"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
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
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
Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? -- Alexander Pope
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
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
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

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