Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. - Thomas Carlyle
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. - Thomas Hobbes
Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable! - Mehmet Murat ildan