Intelligence won wars, not brute force.

“When weak, act strong.”

— Rick Riordan

“The weakest ones are the wickedest cruel When the strongest ones in gentleness rule!”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

— Golda Meir

Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift…

— Harvey Broome

“Whoever won the wars in heavens, He is The God of men today.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident

“And who is the hero of that story? Who slew the dragon [totalitarianism]? Yes, it was the ordinary man, the taxpayer, the grunt who…

— Charles Krauthammer

We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.

— Patrick Leahy

THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the universe, maintain…

— Morihei Ueshiba

I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not one of…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to…

— Stephanie Coontz

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 civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to be the…

— Anonymous

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet...What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on…

— Doyle Brunson

War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi