#brute force

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

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Nothing made by brute force lasts. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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'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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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