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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.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
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.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
![Et tu, Brute. [You also, Brutus.] - Julius Caesar](https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/36/13/1359772954-quote-et-tu-brute-you-also-brutus-julius-caesar-281839.jpg)
