Quotes about Brute
I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
- Psalm 73:22
The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. 25
- Herman Melville
Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Unfortunately, the sinner isn't always the victim. Why should it be? said Mathews. Nature does not work by a scheme of poetical justice. Nor does God, said Perry. We suffer for one another, as, indeed, we must, being all members one of another. Can you separate the child from the father, the man from the brute, or even the man from the vegetable cell...?
- Dorothy Sayers
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
- John Adams