#brutish

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#appetite #better #blood #brutish #depths

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

#corporate #dull #his #individual #life

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder. ↗

— Alexander Berkman

#blind obedience #brutish #callousness #destruction #irresponsible

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#brutish #form #genius #goes #great

Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#barack obama #behalf #brutish #building #campaign