Brute Quotes

When in doubt, use brute force. (Ken Thompson)
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. View quote
Alan Kay
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. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God. View quote
Norman Mailer
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. View quote
Edward Young
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. View quote
Havelock Ellis
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing. View quote
José Martí
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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)
I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. View quote
Max Eastman
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. View quote
Jerome
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. View quote
Adin Ballou
To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. View quote
Ayn Rand
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. View quote
Cicero
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. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The proper method for hastening the decay of error is not by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself. (William Godwin)
I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute! View quote
Frederick Douglass
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. View quote
Margaret Cavendish
I must give you a piece of intelligence that you perhaps already know - namely, that the ungodly arch-villain Voltaire has died miserably like a dog - just like a brute. That is his reward! View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute; From the center all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute. View quote
William Cowper