I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that… — Robert Anderson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Hard work isn't enough. And more work is never the real answer. The sort of grit you need to scale a business… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it.… — Craig Mazin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody… — Francesco Clemente 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… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
THE ART OF PEACE does not rely on weapons or brute force to succeed; instead, we put ourselves in tune with the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
My intimate knowledge of many central African tribes has everywhere convinced me of the necessity that the Negro does not respect treaties… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Where freedom of religion has been attacked, the attack has come from sources opposed to democracy. Where democracy has been overthrown, the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their… — Will Self Copy Share Image
If Truth is taken away from us, then Right and Wrong are taken from us as well. If we don't know Right… — Frank Peretti 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
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
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
Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions… — Vladimir Putin 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 can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about it's use. It is hitting below… — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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