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O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To 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

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected — Thomas Paine

Exterminate all the brutes! — Abel Korzeniowski

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

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

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame

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 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

I said it was a brutal thing.
No, it was a human thing. You should not insult the brutes by such a misuse of that word; they have not deserved it, — Mark Twain

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

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world. — Isaac Watts

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

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes — Dan Savage

People who don't read are brutes. — Eugene Ionesco

This whole world is run by brutes for the common and the stupid. — Moby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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