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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

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• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  William Shakespeare

  Brutus, Treachery

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• Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

  Joseph Addison

  Discovery, Talent, Reason

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1840). “Selections from the Spectator: Embracing the Most Interesting Papers by Addison, Steel, and Others”, p.52

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• What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Cunning, Discretion

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• I am monarch of all I survey,
  My right there is none to dispute,
  From the centre all round to the sea,
  I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

  William Cowper

  Sea, Fowl, Royalty

  1782 Poems,'Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, During His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez'.

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• Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Spiritual, Attitude, Mind

  William Jennings Bryan, Lowell Harris Coate (1925). “The dawn of humanity”

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• There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Men, Three, Beast

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• Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience.

  David Hume

  Intelligent, Skills, Rude

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume”, p.159

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• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  Gertrude Bell

  Death, Struggle, Passion

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• It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

  Craig Ferguson

  Romance, Triumph, Cynicism

  "Craig Ferguson's Doctor Who Song" by David M. Ewalt, www.forbes.com. December 1, 2010.

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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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• In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dog, Spring, Heart

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• The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the souls alive to justice, goodness, enthusiasm, and devotion. The angel shows itself rarely and with difficulty through the highly-organized brute.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Angel, Men

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• Black people have this thing about calling themselves apes and monkeys I know they get real (whatever) and I don't blame em'. But I feel like I'm a brute. I am, but I'm smart though. I'm not a dummy.

  Sean Price

  Real, Smart, People

  Source: www.okayplayer.com

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• What distinguishes man from the brute is his conscious striving to realise the spirit within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Spirit, Strive

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• Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Violence, Species

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.54, Courier Corporation

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• In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Surrender, Satyagraha, Force

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Satyagraha (non-violent Resistance)”

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• For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Women, Believe, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Bravery, Brave, Driving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works: (1918:Aug.-1919:Jul.)”

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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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• 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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• History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Force, Prove

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.13, Rajpal & Sons

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• If you have not even a little imagination, you are simply a brute. So you must not lower your ideal, neither are you to lose sight of practicality. We must avoid the two extremes.... You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Sight, Two

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• If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze." And neither of these two "virtues" is suited to an artist. The artist has to stay intelligent.

  Francesco Clemente

  Artist, Intelligent, Two

  "New Again: Francesco Clemente". Interview with Edit deAk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.

  Mark Hopkins

  Heart, Principles, Want

  Adam Reid, Benjamin Wood, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Henry Brewster Stanton, Laurens Perseus Hickok (1850). “Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851”

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