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• Nothing made by brute force lasts.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Lasts, Made, Force

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• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Sex, Heart

  Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”

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• He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Solitude, Sage, Beast

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.55, Shambhala Publications

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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. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

  William Winwood Reade

  Curiosity, Expansion, Inquiry

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.394

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• Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Animal, Men, Sound

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”

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• Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.

  Simone Weil

  Ideas, Fragility, Stories

  "Three Letters on History: Thophile de Viau" (written 1938 - 1939)

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• The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

  Jane Porter

  Noses, Bears, Should

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love You, Men, Yield

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Easter, West, Unions

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Suicide, Looks, Look Up

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.233, Wildside Press LLC

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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

  Men, Worst Enemy, Brain

  Max Eastman (1962). “Reflections on the failure of socialism”

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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

  Men, Rude, Devil

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• Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Kings, World, Persuasion

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• The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Believe, Men, Aggravation

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• 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

  Funny, Sarcastic, Unbearable

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

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• The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

  William Cobbett

  Giving, Bayonets, Force

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to young men, and, incidentally, to young women, in the middle and higher ranks of life, in a series of letters”, p.51

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• Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it. God directs angels, men, animals, brute matter, in sum all created things, but each according to its nature: and man having been created free, he is led freely.

  Joseph de Maistre

  God, Nature, Moving

  "The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion and Enlightenment".

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• Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

  Lennox Lewis

  Skills, Boxing, Opponents

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• Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Age, Matter

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems”, p.782, Bottletree Books LLC

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• It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Baby, Men, Support

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “Etruscan Places”, p.31, Read Books Ltd

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• There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

  Norman Mailer

  Angel, Men, Misconception

  Norman Mailer (2013). “The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition, With a New Introduction by the Author”, p.323, Henry Holt and Company

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• Among other things, I'm thinking "I'm a child of God." That's amazing. And "I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me." The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Fool, Pleasure

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.

  Mike Huckabee

  Powerful, Humble, Hands

  Mike Huckabee (2008). “From Hope to Higher Ground: My Vision for Restoring America's Greatness”, Center st

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• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life, Community, Together

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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