Ethan Canin

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

American Author

Kurt Eichenwald

By the dawn of the millennium, the hallways at Microsoft were no longer home to barefoot programmers in Hawaiian shirts working through nights and weekends toward a common goal of excellence; instead, life behind the thick corporate walls had become staid and brutish.

American Editor

Federica Montseny

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.

Spanish Activist

Nikos Kazantzakis

The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.

Greek Writer

Noah Centineo

I think there's been this whole image of masculinity that's been out in society - of brooding, brutish, egotistical, narcissistic men - like, this patriarchy.

American Actor

Heather Mac Donald

Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.

Charlie Chaplin

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

English Actor

Herbert Read

If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

English Poet

Alexander Berkman

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

Russian Writer

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

Scottish Philosopher

Brutish describes behavior that is shockingly offensive or crude.

Negative Connotation

Brutish often compares a person's behavior to that of an untamed animal.

Animalistic Comparison

Use 'brutish' to imply physical dominance or aggression.

Physical Aggression

'Brutish' isn't only about physical acts, but also about intellectual crudeness.

Not Just Physical

A brutish person may struggle with understanding subtle or nuanced points.

Subtlety Absent

'Brutish' can describe someone socially clumsy or inept in refined situations.

Social Awkwardness

 He was the one who said that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Not because, he argued, humans have some primordial thirst for blood or aggressive instinct or territorial imperative,

The surprising decline...

 Truth is, lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything, whether it's a predator or otherwise. If it doesn't represent a meal, they just leave it. If it does, of course they eat it,

Eternal Adversaries:...

 life is short and brutish there. The average life expectancy in many of these countries is only 40 years. Malaria, HIV/AIDS are killing a lot of people in these regions of the world. But now for the good news!

Nic Marks: The Happy...

 its meal but you know what truth is lions are pretty brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it

Hair-Raising Hyena...

 You might be a failure by standards you hold dear but that the world doesn't reward. Only you can know. I know that I am not a tribute to my great-grandmother, who lived such a short and brutish life,

The new American Dream PIPE...

 brutish and they will try and grab and kill just about anything whether it's a predator or otherwise if it doesn't represent a meal they just leave it if it does of course they eat it but in

Adorable Lion Moments PIPE...

 instead of the nasty, brutish past. So why does this matter? Why talk about social-economic movements that may be more than a century away? Because transitions are dangerous times.

Pete Alcorn on the world...

 his work is that evolutions legacy is not nasty brutish and short it's not a survival of the fittest world instead this cruel animal second ISM has led to a world of

Tim Flannery: Here on...

 Life was nasty, brutish and a very long time ago. The selection criteria for reproductive success from that time doesn't really apply today. For example,

How your brain decides...

 - Neanderthals are often depicted as brutish cave men, but science shows that our early ancestors were actually quite advanced.