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brutes
«Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?»
«My arms have mutinied against me ? brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.»
Author: Wilfred Owen
(Poet, Soldier)
| About:
Death,
Poetry,
World War I
| Keywords:
brutes, mutinies, squads
«Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge»
«Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.»
Author: Jean Giraudoux
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
brutes, with wisdom
«Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons»
«Those who are destitute of learning, penance, knowledge, good disposition, virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.»
«Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction»
