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

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes. — Christopher Morley

Men are not angels, neither are they brutes. — Robert Browning

Mr. Kent raised his brows. "What are they asking?"
"For me to heal a little girl."
"My God, the brutes, the monsters," he mocked. — Tarun Shanker

Boys are marvellous creatures. Perhaps they will sink below the brutes; perhaps they will attain to a woman's tenderness. — E. M. Forster

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

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. — Jonathan Swift

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

As we to the brutes, poets are to us. — George Meredith

Baudelaire was far more than a great poet. He established the keyboard of a sensibility that still lives within us, if we are not total brutes. — Roberto Calasso

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes. — Jean De La Fontaine

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. — Aldous Huxley

A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. — Swami Vivekananda

As animals go, even in so limited a space as our world, man is botched and ridiculous. Few other brutes are so stupid, so docile or so cowardly. — H.L. Mencken

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. — Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

Humans are petty monsters by nature and big brutes by social causes. — Zoran Zekovic

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. — Isaac Newton

Brutes leave ingratitude to man. — Charles Caleb Colton

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world. — Lord Byron

The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men. — Charles Godfrey Leland

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default. — Ayn Rand

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes. — Ayn Rand

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot. — Rudyard Kipling

There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. — Herman Melville

The worship of God is ... the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality. — John Calvin

Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength. — Jean De La Fontaine

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. — Jonathan Swift

The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes. — Mary Wortley Montagu

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes. — Amelia Barr