Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never…

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

— Steve McConnell

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

— Oscar Wilde

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

— Ayn Rand

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the…

— Adin Ballou

[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…

— L. Neil Smith

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…

— Rand Paul

If brute force doesn't work, you aren't using enough

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

— Kenneth Grahame

In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...

— Anthony Gregory

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…

— Joseph Conrad

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

— Napoleon Bonaparte