Top Brute Quotes
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
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
William Cobbett
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield
Blaise Pascal 
Robert Louis Stevenson 
Jose Marti 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
Thomas Carlyle 
George Combe 
Vladimir Nabokov 
Baltasar Gracian 
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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 
69% of people like this quote
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
63% of people like this quote
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.
Mohandas Gandhi
58% of people like this quote
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
William Cobbett
56% of people like this quote
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield
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The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
Jane Porter
55% of people like this quote
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
54% of people like this quote
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian
54% of people like this quote
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Oscar WildeMohandas GandhiMarcus Tullius CiceroThomas CarlyleGilbert K. ChestertonBlaise PascalRobert Louis StevensonSimone WeilLord ChesterfieldBaltasar GracianSamuel Taylor ColeridgeAyn RandJose MartiEdward Young
Vladimir NabokovEdgar Allan PoeThomas HobbesHenry EllisKen ThompsonMargaret CavendishEdmund HusserlWilliam CobbettMax EastmanGeorge BancroftGeorge CombeJane PorterStephen BakerWilliam Winwood Reade
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