In this post, you will find great Brute Quotes from famous people, such as Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, George Bancroft, Oscar Wilde, William Cobbett, Mahatma Gandhi. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
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.
It’s as if inside the White House the belief in Obama‘s inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it’s a startling revelation.
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That’s one of their nicest qualities – their brute persistence.
We must realise that man’s nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
My natural abilities weren’t necessarily brute power and strength. They were more about the ability to endure and not give up.
There’s a lot to being a weightlifter. People think it’s all brute strength. But it takes strength, quickness, flexibility, and technique. And it can cause a lot of stress.
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play – their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force – can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
When in doubt, use brute force.
