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Jai Ganesh

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Brute Quotes

Brute Quotes

1. 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. - Ayn Rand

2. Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. - Mahatma Gandhi

3. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. - Oscar Wilde

4. 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

5. The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider! - George Bernard Shaw

6. God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts. - Isaac Newton

7. The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

8. I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. - Mahatma Gandhi

9. Nothing made by brute force lasts. - Robert Louis Stevenson

10. Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

11. I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute. - Blaise Pascal

12. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' - Vladimir Putin

13. Cosmologists have attempted to account for the day-to-day laws you find in textbooks in terms of fundamental 'superlaws,' but the superlaws themselves must still be accepted as brute facts. So maybe the ultimate laws of nature will always be off-limits to science. - Paul Davies

14. I think what pace bowlers need to do in T20 cricket is not just run up and bowl fast. It's not about brute pace in T20, it's about the variation. - Wasim Akram.

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