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

“I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below the intellect.”

— 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

In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender 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

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

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

— Steve McConnell