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«The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force»
Author: George Bancroft
| About:
Civilization,
Force,
Intelligence,
Mind,
Progress,
Wealth
| Keywords:
brute, brute force, exact, prevailed
«The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you»
«To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.»
Author: Stephen Baker
| Keywords:
bathe, bathed, bathes, brute, brute force, come by, conviction, hardest, ingredient, perseverance
«The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
breeding, brute, cynic, disagreeable, everyone else, nitpicker, philosopher, scholar, soldier, The Philosopher, The Soldier
«To play safe, I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash, the triumph of magic over the brute»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Magic
| Keywords:
brute, power play, trash, Trashing, type
«We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
approaching, brute, brute force, citizens, darkest, Human history, inversion, periods, permission, pleases, rule by, stage, the government, The Stage, The Ultimate, ultimate
«The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Belief,
Life
| Keywords:
brute, in particular
«The mere brute pleasure of reading -the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.»
«They have answered the stirrings of liberty with brute force, killings, mass arrests, and the setting up of concentration camps.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
arrests, brute, concentration camps, killings, stirrings
«Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.»
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