“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
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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
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
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to… — Stephen Baker Copy Share Image
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents... — Anthony Gregory Copy Share Image
“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Brute force will sometimes get you through a challenge, but usually not without hurting and depleting yourself in the process.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do. — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind. — Ayn Rand 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
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right… — Adin Ballou Copy Share Image
Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince.… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image