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Letter "B" » brute
«I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.»
«LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and lads support the serpents and keep them up to their work have been justly regarded as one of the noblest artistic illustrations of the mastery of human intelligence over brute inertia.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
antique, antiques, artistic, brute, diligence, folds, illustration, illustrations, inertia, justly, Laocoon, piece of work, representing, scripture, serpents, that name, The old man
«It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
brute, force field, ford, fortnight, frail, Green Grass, Henry, Henry Ford, Henry V, Hercules, napoleon, overbear, overbearing, overborne, sensitiveness, supports, terrific
«There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man»
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Fidelity,
Friendship,
Love,
Men
| Keywords:
brute, directly, fidelities, fidelity, frequent, gossamer, occasion, paltry, sacrificing, self-sacrificing, unselfish
«In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Rules
| Keywords:
age of, age of the, brute, brute force, Force It, force of law, Law of the, possibly, reject, rule of, supremacy
«I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.»
«Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to realize that they need not fear brute force, if they would but know the soul within.»
«I never saw a brute I hated so; / He must be wicked to deserve such pain.»
«It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot!»
«Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.»
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