William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)"
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"Patience and perseverance at lengthAccomplish more than anger or brute strength."
Jean de La Fontaine
Poet, Fabulist
"What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker."
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"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."
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"Men are not angels, neither are they brutes."
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"Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status."
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"History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force."
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"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."
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"Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute."
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