Brute Quotes

• I, too, would find out that old age is a brute, ferocious beast.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Beast
  • Find Out
  • Brute

• To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Brute
  • Weaker Sex

• That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Power
  • Man
  • Distinquishes

• Who does not love his own tongue is far worse than a brute or stinking fish.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Tongue
  • Worse
  • Brute

• He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Men
  • Beast
  • Brute

• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Community
  • Separate
  • Human Life

• Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Distinction
  • Brute