#brute force

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

— William Cobbett

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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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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