The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet. — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The art of peace is medicine for a sick worldit does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The highest ranking wolf in the pack isn't the one that uses brute force. It's the one who can, and chooses not… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“You can't hack your destiny, brute force...you need a back door, a side channel into Life.” — Clyde Dsouza Copy Share Image
Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Jiu-jitsu is personal efficiency to protect the weaker, which anyone can do. It is the force of leverage against brute force. — Helio Gracie Copy Share Image
When somebody says the best thing you can do is be tough, the best thing you can do is use your brute… — Benjamin Jealous Copy Share Image
Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The number of nuclear bombs on the planet today - the sheer quantity of weapons of mass destruction in the possession of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The civil magistrate cannot function without some ethical guidance, without some standard of good and evil. If that standard is not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
It is important to understand what I mean by semiosis. All dynamic action, or action of brute force, physical or psychical, either… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The strong will prey on the weak, and when it comes down to brute force, men almost always win a battle with… — Dirk Patton Copy Share Image
