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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

Society says that men need to be bigger and stronger, and they must protect their women and so on.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

Men are fighting... because they are convinced that the extermination of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well-being.

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.