Brute Force Quotes

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand

History, Government, Human

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Oscar Wilde

Reason, Stand, Unfair

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

Union, Force, Welcome

Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Made, Force

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

Faith, Force, Kings

Who were the fools who spread the story that brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead they are no more than corpses.
Simone Weil

Nothing, Cannot, Dead

'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
Havelock Ellis

Work, Women, Power

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves.
Alan Kay

Today, Integrity, Done

When in doubt, use brute force.
Ken Thompson

Doubt, Force, Brute

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.
Eric Liu

Life, Trying, Made

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.
William Cobbett

Money, Power, Force

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.
George Bancroft

Mind, Progress, Wealth

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
George Combe

Wisdom, Her, Nation

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

Courage, Last, Takes

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