Brute Force Quotes
66 quotes by 55 authors
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
— Anthony Gregory
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Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
— Kenneth Grahame
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I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of…
— Charles Darwin
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Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
— Ayn Rand
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People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically…
— L. Neil Smith
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Non-cooperation is an attempt to awaken the masses, to a sense of their dignity and power. This can only be done by enabling them to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against…
— Sigmund Freud
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Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much…
— Peter Watts
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The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to 'do' the punch or attempting…
— Bruce Lee
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The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble assistance.
— Mike Huckabee
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Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and…
— Garry Kasparov
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An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
— John Dewey
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Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place. Except where…
— Ross Douthat
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But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust.…
— Adin Ballou
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A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.
— Steve McConnell
Who Wrote These Brute Force Quotes
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