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• We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'

  Rich Lowry

  Lying, Believe, President

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• As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Men, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.29, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• 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

  Social, Pariahs, Lowest

  Swami Vivekananda (1974). “Awakened India”

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• In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Clothes, Numbers

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.8, Full Moon Publications

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• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Progress

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

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• If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right and Wrong, then we can't, we won't control ourselves, but will look to someone else to bring order through brute force and raw power. We will be controlled by a tyrant, and we will no longer be free.

  Frank Peretti

  Taken, Order, Tyrants

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• Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.

  Winona LaDuke

  Inspirational, Power, People

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• A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

  Edward Lear

  Music, Insane, Roaring

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

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• TV is sometimes accused of encouraging fantasies. Its real problem, though, is that it encourages-enforces, almost-a brute realism. It is anti-Utopian in the extreme. We're discouraged from thinking that, except for a few new products, there might be a better way of doing things.

  Bill McKibben

  Real, Thinking, Might

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Self, Redemption

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• 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 potentials and capabilities?

  H. Jay Dinshah

  Selfish, Men, Law

  "Out of the Jungle" (1967); as quoted in "Compassion, the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism" by Victoria Moran, Wellingborough: Thorsons, (p. 31), 1985.

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• Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.

  Jonathan Swift

  Dog, Horse, Lying

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• THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain peace in our own realms, nurture life, and prevent death and destruction. The true meaning of the term samurai is one who serves and adheres to the power of love.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Samurai, Weapons

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.70, Shambhala Publications

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• I don't love women. Love has to be reinvented, we know that. The only thing women can ultimately imagine is security. Once they get that, love, beauty, everything else goes out the window. All they have left is cold disdain; that's what marriages live on nowadays. Sometimes I see women who ought to be happy, with whom I could have found companionship, already swallowed up by brutes with as much feeling as an old log.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Love, Dream, Feelings

  Arthur Rimbaud (2017). “A Season in Hell”, p.24, BookRix

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• 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

  Men, Boss, Feelings

  Pope Benedict XVI (2006). “On conscience: two essays”, Natl Catholic Bioethics Center

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• A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?

  Victor Hugo

  Fire, Wind, Broken

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6889, Delphi Classics

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• When intellectual leaders fail to foster the best in the mixed, unformed, vacillating character of people at large, the thugs are sure to bring out the worst. When the ablest men turn into cowards, the average men turn into brutes.

  Ayn Rand

  Character, Thug, Men

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.46, Penguin

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• War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Force, Degrading

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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• Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beautiful, Men, Two

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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• The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.

  Leigh Newman

  Effort, Path, Glory

  "8 Huge, Horrible Questions Nobody Will Ask But You" by Leigh Newman, www.oprah.com. October 29, 2012.

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

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• For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, Numbers, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.49, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Hate, Heart, Animal

  Eliphas Levi (2011). “The Dogma of High Magic”, p.2, Lulu.com

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• 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

  Class, Quality, Looks

  "Magick Without Tears". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 73, 1954.

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• Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Successful

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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