Brute

Famous quotes containing the word brute:

“Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)