Brute Quotes
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Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through. Every woman adores a Fascist, The boot in the face, the brute brute heart of a brute like you.
Sylvia Plath— 1962 'Daddy', published posthumously byTed Hughes (Ariel, 1965).
He was a practical electrician but fond of whisky, a heavy, red-haired brute with irregular teeth.He doubted the existence of the Deity but accepted Carnot's cycle, and he had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
— 1894 'The Lord of the Dynamos'.
As to the power which money gives, it is that of brute force, it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet, and of the bribed press, tongue and pen.
william cobbett— Letter 1, p. 36.
Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
William Butler Yeats— Leda and the Swan, st. 3
How like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
Quintus Ennius Ennius— Quoted in Cicero De Divinatione, bk.50 (translated by H Rackham,1942).
Theyare the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes— 1857-8 Of facts. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, ch.1.
We for a certaintyare not the first Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
— 1922 Last Poems, no.9.
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. "Might makes right," and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.
— Christian Non-Resistance: In All its Important Bearings, Illustrated and Defended (1846)
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— "The Office of the People in Art, Government and Religion", pp. 426-7
An intelligent person should never resolve a dispute with brute force.
gersh budker— as quoted by R. Z. Sagdeev in G.I. Budker: reflections & remembrances, by Boris N. Breizman. Springer. 1993. p. 306. ISBN 1-56396-070-2.
Had there been no other personal attribute to influence the final outcome, Tarzan of the Apes, the young Lord Greystoke, would have died as he had lived — an unknown savage beast in equatorial Africa. But there was that which had raised him far above his fellows of the jungle — that little spark which spells the whole vast difference between man and brute — Reason. This it was which saved him from death beneath the iron muscles and tearing fangs of Terkoz.
Edgar Rice Burroughs— Tarzan of the Apes, Ch. 12: Man's Reason (1912)
Realise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
immanuel jakobovits— p.17 (The Authorised Daily Prayer Book, Centenary Edition 1990)
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
jerome— Letter 54 (Sourced)
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.
jigoro kano— "Judo: The Japanese Art of Self Defense", as translated in A Complete Guide to Judo : It's Story and Practice (1958) by Robert W. Smith
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
alan kay— ACM Queue A Conversation with Alan Kay Vol. 2, No. 9 - Dec/Jan 2004-2005
This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final note, stating that, unless we heard from them by 11 o'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland, a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Germany. ... 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— Broadcast from the Cabinet Rooms at 10 Downing Street (3 September 1939)
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 keith chesterton— Twelve Types (1903) Charles II
Through systematic terror, through indoctrination, through systematic manipulation of stimulus, reward, and punishment, we can today break man and convert him into brute animal ... The first step toward survival is therefore to make government legitimate again by attempting to deprive it of these powers... by international action to ban such powers.
Peter Drucker— p. 258 (Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New 'Post-Modern' World (1959))
No pure delight cheers the farmer whose mind is intent on the price he shall get for his crops rather than on the joy there is in tilling them and seeing them grow and ripen: for such an one does not love the land nor his home nor any of the most beautiful and sacred things, but tends to become like the brute that eats and sleeps and dies. His thoughts are with what feeds the animal, and that which nourishes the human is hidden from him.
john lancaster spalding— p. 168 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
When under the influence of certain (or some) reasons (or causes) (alcohol, war, etc - added Spir here) the low instincts are unbridled (or unrestrained), the brute appears (or come forward, "apparait", Fr.) and rule over (or dominate), stifling every ("toute", Fr.) noble, generous impulse; it is then the ruin (or downfall or decline) of any humanity in man.
african spir— p. 48 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
Churches and universities insofar as they live up to their true function serve the ennoblement of the individual. They seek to fulfill this great task by spreading moral and cultural understanding, renouncing the use of brute force.
— Albert Einstein, "Moral Decay" (1937); later published in Out of My Later Years (1950)
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
— Edgar Allan Poe, "The Black Cat" (1843).
The more I study the world, the more am I convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
— As quoted by Charles Sumner, "War System of the Commonwealth of Nations" (1849), in The works of Charles Sumner (1870), Vol. 2, p. 224.
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis . All dynamic action , or action of brute force , physical or psychical, either takes place between two subjects, whether they react equally upon each other, or one is agent and the other patient, entirely or partially, or at any rate is a resultant of such actions between pairs. But by "semiosis" I mean, on the contrary, an action, or influence, which is, or involves, a cooperation of three subjects, such as a sign , its object, and its interpretant, this tri-relative influence not being in any way resolvable into actions between pairs.
— Charles Sanders Peirce, in "Pragmatism" (1907), also in The Essential Peirce : Selected Philosophical Writings (1998) edited by the Peirce Edition Project, Vol. 2, p. 411
brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge— 20 August 1833.
Et tu brute! Then fall, Cæsar!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 77.
Et tu, brute fili.
— You also, O son Brutus.
— Caesar. Words on being stabbed by Brutus, according to Suetonius. Quoted as "Et tu Brutus" and "Tu quoque Brute." True Tragedy of Richarde, Duke of York. (1600). Also found in S. Nicholson's Acolastus his Afterwitte. (1600) Caesar's Legend, in Mirror for Magistrates. (1587) Malone suggests that the Latin words appeared in the old Latin play by Richard Eedes—Epilogus Coesaris Interfecti, given at Christ Church, Oxford. (1582).
