“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

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Michelangelo Buonarroti 27

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet 1475–1564

Louis Nizer (1902–1994) American lawyer

Between You and Me, Beechurst Press, 1948.

“Ooh, he's a moody old man.
Song of Summer in his hand.
Ooh, he's a moody old man.
…in…in…in his hand.
…in his hand.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

Song lyrics, Never for Ever (1980)

“[The Computer] was the first machine man built that assisted the power of his brain instead of the strength of his arm.”

Grace Hopper (1906–1992) American computer scientist and United States Navy officer

As spoken at Space Coast 1987 speaking about the Harvard Mark I computer. The Computer was originally She in reference to the Mark I.

“Ingersoll knew that he must make his appeal to man's brain.”

Alice Moore Hubbard (1861–1915) American activist

Introduction.
An American Bible (1912)
Context: Robert Ingersoll was humorist, iconoclast and lover of humanity.
It is said that the difference between man and the lower animals is that man has the ability to laugh.
When you laugh you relax, and when you relax you give freedom to muscles, nerves and brain-cells. Man seldom has use of his reason when his brain is tense. The sense of humor makes a condition where reason can act.
Ingersoll knew that he must make his appeal to man's brain.

“And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove,
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand.”

John Dryden Annus Mirabilis

Annus Mirabilis, Stanza 39.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Zappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain.”

Piero Scaruffi (1955) Italian writer

Zappa The History of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/zappa.html

“For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence.”

Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

God’s Justice and Ours http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/01/gods-justice-and-ours-32, 123 First Things 17. (May 2002).
2000s
Context: It seems to me that the more Christian a country is the less likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. Abolition has taken its firmest hold in post-Christian Europe, and has least support in the church-going United States. I attribute that to the fact that, for the believing Christian, death is no big deal. Intentionally killing an innocent person is a big deal: it is a grave sin, which causes one to lose his soul. But losing this life, in exchange for the next? The Christian attitude is reflected in the words Robert Bolt’s play has Thomas More saying to the headsman: 'Friend, be not afraid of your office. You send me to God'. For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence.