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Nothing made by brute force lasts. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. -- Thomas Carlyle
I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. -- William Cobbett
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. -- Oscar Wilde
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses. -- Simone Weil
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay
When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. -- Eric Liu
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -- Ayn Rand
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it. -- Lysander Spooner
It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism. -- Craig Ferguson
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. -- Dalai Lama
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force -- Vladimir Putin
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. -- Joseph Conrad
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred. -- L. Neil Smith
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect. -- Bruce Lee
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth. -- Winona LaDuke
In his recent book, When Brute Force Fails, UCLA's Kleiman argues that new strategies for targeting repeat offenders--including reforms to make probation an effective sanction rather than a feckless joke--could cut crime and reduce prison populations simultaneously. Safer communities, in turn, might produce more hopeful and well-disciplined kids. -- David Von Drehle
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force. -- Sigmund Freud
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism. -- Ayn Rand
When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. -- Stephen Baker
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone. -- Rand Paul
The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. -- George Bancroft
'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. -- Havelock Ellis
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan, 'You're either with us or against us.' -- Vladimir Putin
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. -- George Combe
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong. -- Tom Stoppard
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life. -- Will Self
Intelligence won wars, not brute force. -- Rick Riordan
If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
When imperialism feels weak, it resorts to brute force. -- Hugo Chavez
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. -- Oscar Wilde
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. -- Steve McConnell
In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life. -- Clyde DeSouza
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. -- John Gierach
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. -- Kenneth Grahame
Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. -- Ayn Rand
Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process. -- Bryant McGill
The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed -- Morihei Ueshiba
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... -- Anthony Gregory
The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance. -- Mike Huckabee
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. -- Helio Gracie
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force. -- John Dewey
Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force and repression. -- Ludwig von Mises
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! -- Rafael Sabatini
Economic planning is nothing more than the forcible superseding of other people's plans by the powerful elite backed up by the brute force of government. -- Walter E. Williams
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness. -- Boris Pasternak
The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter. ...The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things. -- George Gilder
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail. -- Neville Chamberlain
When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute force, then we're selling ourselves short. -- Benjamin Jealous
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same. -- Aaron Ross
Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. -- Havelock Ellis
Charm" "? which means the power to effect work without employing brute force "? is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. -- Havelock Ellis
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force. -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire the nonviolent; applaud the peaceful; despise the brute force! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force. -- Rudolf Rocker
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force. -- Francesco Clemente
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain. -- Sun Tzu
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces. -- Rex Stout

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