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
Edmund Husserl 
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George Bancroft 
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Marcus Tullius Cicero All Brute Quotes
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 
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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
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Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
Jose Marti
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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
George Combe
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Lord Chesterfield
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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
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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman
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