To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“I learned to ambush the fear and I managed to turn vulnerability to ruthlessness.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
I've got that ruthlessness inside me. All good captains have to be able to say things like that - with good man-management… — Alastair Cook Copy Share Image
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie… — Armond White Copy Share Image
“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators… — R. U. Sirius Copy Share Image
We admire people who work hard, who are objective and thorough. We detest office politicians, toadies, bullies, and pompous asses. We abhor… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“In this world, where the strong prey upon the weak, and the cunning manipulate the naive, it is imperative that you become… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic,… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
In your 20s - and these are generalizations of course - I feel like I didn't care about as many things or… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might… — Barbara Taylor Bradford Copy Share Image
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I don’t know what sort of savagery your ‘barbarian’ people instilled, but christening yourself war-like seems the height of narcissistic delusion. Let… — Clayton Kinnelon Greiman Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“She did not make monsters of us. She simply gave us the power to remake ourselves into those inviolable creatures the God… — Sarah Hall Copy Share Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
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