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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made theeTo temper man: we had been brutes without you. — Thomas Otway
Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.
— Jean Giraudoux
Exterminate all the brutes!
— Abel Korzeniowski
All men are brutes.
— Beatriz Williams
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
The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.
— Raheel Farooq
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
What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,
— Ford Madox Ford
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
The stronger a man is, the more gentle he can afford to be
— Elbert Hubbard
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
— Henry David Thoreau
If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
— Steve McConnell
Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.
— Dante Alighieri
The brutes imagine they are doing me an honour in letting me sit down with them. They don't understand that it's an honour to them not to me!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
People who don't read are brutes.
— Eugene Ionesco
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
— Lord Byron
I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.
— Laird Barron
The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
— Jean De La Fontaine
The worship of God is ... the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
— John Calvin
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
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
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
— Ayn Rand
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
— Charles Godfrey Leland
You cannot be surprised at anything men do, they're such brutes.
— Marcel Proust
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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
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
The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.
— Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
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
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
— Jean De La Fontaine
As we to the brutes, poets are to us.
— George Meredith