I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite…

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

— Oscar Wilde

“How dreadful!" cried Lord Harry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It…

— Oscar Wilde

[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

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

“If brute force is not working you're not using enough”

— Stephen Herfst

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

— Kenneth Grahame

“Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.”

— Bryant McGill

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

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under…

— Vladimir Putin

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

— Anthony Gregory

“than he expects. But it's a purely brute force approach”

— David Weber

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi