# Quote — Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

> They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!

- Author: [Rafael Sabatini](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini.md)
- Book: [Scaramouche](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rafael_Sabatini#Scaramouche_(1921)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche/they-opposed-brute

## More from this book

> You have changed a certainty into a possibility, and I hate possibilities — God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche/you-have-changed.md)

> He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche/he-was-born.md)

> When we know all of whatever it may be, we can never do anything but forgive, madame. That is the profoundest religious truth that was ever written. It contains, in fact, a whole religion—the noblest religion any man could have to guide him.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/rafael-sabatini/scaramouche/when-we-know.md)