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Brutes Quotes

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

"Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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

As we to the brutes, poets are to us.

George Meredith (2008). “Diana of The Crossways”, p.225, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.79, Delphi Classics

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.

Jean de La Fontaine, James Michie (1979). “La Fontaine: Selected”, Viking Adult

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.

Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1847-1861”, p.205, Pearson Education

We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.

John Flavel (1701). “The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel: ... to which are added alphabetical tables of the texts of scripture explained, and indexes of the principal matters contained in both volumes”, p.497

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

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

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

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

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

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.

Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin