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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.


Herman Melville


#brutes #divinity #even #exempt #forever

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.


Jean Giraudoux


#call #ears #education #every #hand

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.


Gottfried Leibniz


#arise #brutes #empirical #far #like

But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.


Fanny Kemble


#allowed #between #brutes #class #common

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.


Jonathan Swift


#appetites #beasts #brutes #destruction #find

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.


Giovanni Pico della Mirandola


#brutes #degrade #even #impious #into

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.


Buffalo Bill


#brutes #buffaloes #circling #crowded #forte

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.


Amelia Barr


#into #just #like #make #men

When a man has a gift in speaking the truth, brute aggression is no longer his security blanket for approval. He, on the contrary, spends most of his energy trying to tone it down because his very nature is already offensive enough.


Criss Jami


#approval #authority #blanket #brute-force #brutes

Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes.


Ayn Rand


#racism #racism






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