Brute force Quotes · Page 2

She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force…

— Nicole Krauss

People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men…

— L. Neil Smith

I am not talking about rebelliousness, but giving people time for constructive internal reflection and even daydreaming. A lot of research is…

— Scott Barry Kaufman

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for…

— Paul Feyerabend

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the…

— William Godwin

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'…

— Lysander Spooner

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

— Craig Ferguson

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And…

— D. H. Lawrence

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite,…

— Anonymous

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time…

— Henry Spencer

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force,…

— Rich Lowry

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their…

— Rudolf Rocker

Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you:…

— Catherynne M. Valente

An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute…

— John Dewey

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

— Thomas Carlyle

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to…

— Stephen Baker

Against what is stupid, nonsensical, erroneous, and evil, [classical] liberalism fights with the weapons of the mind, and not with brute force…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by…

— Rex Stout

Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force…

— Garry Kasparov

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…

— Rand Paul

“Do not admire the warriors; do not admire the fighters; condemn the fist! Get rid of this low culture of wildness! Admire…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration.

— John Gierach