If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough
I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.
Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.
Brutes leave ingratitude to man.
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.
Men are not angels, neither are they brutes.
Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.
The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men.
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.
We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes.
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.
I believe we're brutes, but then, miraculously, there are those among us who stand up against that brutishness and remind us of the goodness we're capable of.
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.
Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength.
