Because a man has a black face and a different
religion fromours, there
isno reasonwhy heshould betreatedas a brute.
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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 PlathI 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. O Solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
william cowperHow like us is that ugly brute, the ape!
Quintus Ennius EnniusTheyare the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Oliver Wendell HolmesBut 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.
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 bancroftAn intelligent person should never resolve a dispute with brute force.
gersh budkerHad 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 BurroughsRealise that man is comparable to the brute creation except when uplifted by the loving Covenant initiated with our Patriarchs.
immanuel jakobovitsIn 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 kanoThe man that blushes is not quite a brute.
Edward YoungThis 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 chamberlainNo 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 spaldingWhen 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 spirChurches 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.
The more I study the world, the more am I convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
Belinda: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil.Lady brute: That may be a mistake in the translation.
john vanbrughEt tu brute! Then fall, Cæsar!
william shakespeareEt tu, brute fili.