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• 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

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.473, Manonmani Publishers

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mother, Hard Work, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Heart, Men, Touching

  "Twelve Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.

  Anthony Gregory

  Peace, War, Done

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• Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Crush, Time, Jesus

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  Kano Jigoro

  Fundamentals, May, Opponents

  "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense". "A Complete Guide to Judo: Its Story and Practice" by Robert W. Smith, judoinfo.com. 1958.

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• And many kinds of creatures must have died,
  Unable to plant out new sprouts of life.
  For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives
  Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved
  By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
  And many have been entrusted to our care,
  Commended by their usefulness to us.
  For instance, strength supports a savage lion;
  Foxes rely on their cunning; deer their flight.

  Lucretius

  Life, Death, Science

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• Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Animal, Proud, Silent

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• My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

  Guy De la Valdene

  Friendship, Dog, Forgiving

  Guy de la Valdene (2007). “For a Handful of Feathers”, p.85, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

  Edward Young

  Men, Literature, He Man

  Edward Young (1813). “The Complaint; Or, Night Thoughts”, p.183

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• I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hitting, Unbearable, Reason

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Warrior, Peaceful, Culture

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• The function of the machine is to liberate man from brute burdens, and release his energies to the building of his intellectual and spiritual powers for conquests in the fields of thought and higher action.

  Henry Ford

  Spiritual, Men, Intellectual

  Henry Ford (1926). “Today and tomorrow”

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• The soldier, above all other men, is required to perform the highest act of religious offering-sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his amke gave when he created in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the place of the divine annunciation and spiritual gift which will alone sustain him.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Spiritual, Religious, Sacrifice

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• And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

  Francesco Clemente

  Hate, Humorous, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Brutes abstract not. -- If it may be doubted, whether beasts compound and enlarge their ideas, that way, to any degree; this, I think, I may be positive in, that the power of abstracting is not at all in them; and that the having of general ideas is that which puts a perfect distinction betwixt man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes do by no means attain to.

  John Locke

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  John Locke (1721). “An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

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• 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

  Men, Bravery, Honor

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• The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, House, Soul

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “By An Evolutionist”

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• In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.

  Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits

  Men, Covenant, Creation

  "The Authorised Daily Prayer Book" by Immanuel Jakobovits, Centenary Edition, (p. 17), 1990.

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• The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Common, Capacity

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inability, World, Study

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• Emulation, even in brutes, is sensitively "nervous." See the tremor of the thoroughbred racer before he starts. The dray-horse does not tremble, but he does not emulate. It is not his work to run a race. Says Marcus Antoninus, "It is all one to a stone whether it be thrown upward or downward." Yet the emulation of a man of genius is seldom with his contemporaries, that is, inwardly in his mind, although outwardly in his act it would seem so. The competitors with whom his secret ambition seems to vie are the dead.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Horse, Ambition

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• When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Trying, Energy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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