The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed
The strength that we want is not a brute, unregulated strength; the beauty that we want is no mere surface beauty; but we want a beauty on the surface of life that is from the central force of principle within, as the beauty on the cheek of health is from the central force at the heart.
Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood.
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempowerment. Part of the mythology that they’ve been teaching you is that you have no power. Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
Whining lets the brute know there's a victim for him in the neighborhood!
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
Naive conclusions to draw from man's brutality! Because man is a brute, woman has to be locked up so that she will remain unharmed.
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
Innovation got hip. It got cool. I prefer the people who investigate the world out a brute sense of curiosity, a fundamental sense of play.
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government.
It is his capacity for self-improvement and self-redemption which most distinguishes man from the mere brute.
Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to the popular myth that industrialization destroyed "traditional" extended families, this high point occurred between 1850 and 1885, during the most intensive period of early industrialization. Many of these extended families, and most "producing" families of the time, depended on the labor of children; they were held together by dire necessity and sometimes by brute force.
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
We dominate a horse by mind over matter. We could never do it by brute strength.
