Brutes Quotes - Page 6

• Environmental problems provoke challenges about what kind of world we want, how important we think it is if something is brought about by human action or by brute nature, what we think of the value of human life compared to that of other living things.

  Dale Jamieson

  Thinking, Challenges, Environmental

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I am a woman and I don't have the power and the strength of a man, so I have to use my technique and my strategy more than just using brute strength like some of the guys do.

  Bonnie Canino

  Men, Guy, Technique

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White, America

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The modern era of feminism relies on a lot of accepted premises. The biggest one is that men are predators, that they're mean. In their natural state they are brutes, bullies, and that women are endangered at the slightest bit of temper or anger.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Men, Bully

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As far as feminism is concerned be the problem in the world is men, and they, in their natural state, are essentially incompatible. They must be tamed. They must be tempered, 'cause men are naturally brutes. They fight. They sweat. They expel gas. They're dirty. They get into fights. And we've got to somehow reprogram all of that out, because otherwise women will be in constant peril. And I am not exaggerating. The modern era of feminism has done such great damage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dirty, Fighting, Men

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Believe, Goodness, Capable

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the spirit of free worship has disappeared. And where religion and democracy have vanished, good faith and reason in international affairs have given way to strident ambition and brute force.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Ambition, Democracies Have, Democracy

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Needs, May

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• The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of people and governments throughout the world - along with the fact that the use of brute force and militarism is an almost knee-jerk way of problem-solving on the planet today, makes the eradication of war the great moral issue of this generation.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Numbers, Issues

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Men, Imagination, May

  Robert Smythe Hichens (1896). “The folly of Eustace: and other stories”

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Revolutionary

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• I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of brute force; that His rule is over hearts, not over places; that His victories must be inward before they can be outward; that He seeks to control spirits rather than bodies; that no triumph could satisfy Him but a triumph that gains the heart; that in short, where God really reigns, the surrender must be the interior surrender of the convicted free men, and not merely the outward surrender of the conquered slave.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Heart, Men, Ideas

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• The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy is making lots more poor or recognize their fellowship with the insecurity of the poor, the portion of the population for whom the system does not work.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Believe, Insecurity, Leeches

  Source: therumpus.net

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• This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid.

  Moby

  Running, Stupid, World

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Stupid, Gun

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• Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dark, Power, Perception

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.

  John Adams

  Education, Men, Differences

  John Adams (2012). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world.

  Robert Anderson

  War, Thinking, Age

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• When in doubt, use brute force.

  Ken Thompson

  Doubt, Use, Programming

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• I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Enough, Force, Ifs

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• 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

  Government, Civilization, Mind

  "Literary and Historical Miscellanies". "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-427. Book by George Bancroft, 1855.

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• 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

  Fighting, History, Evil

  Neville Chamberlain (2005). “The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The Downing Street years, 1934-1940”, Ashgate Publishing

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• A good soldier is a blind, heartless, soulless, murderous machine. He is not a man. His is not a brute, for brutes kill only in self defense. All that is human in him, all that is divine in him, all that constitutes the man has been sworn away when he took the enlistment roll. His mind, his conscience, aye, his very soul, are in the keeping of his officer. No man can fall lower than a soldier-it is a depth beneath which we cannot go.

  Jack London

  War, Fall, Men

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