Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
His brutish explosions of anger, his displays of vanity on stage were seen by pretentious and unpretentious reviewers alike as having an immediacy new to the theater.
Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
O judgment thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
No arts no letters no society and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories