Mercenary Quotes
43 quotes by 38 authors
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for…
— Sam Houston
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its object the preservation…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in her seas, sails…
— John Burroughs
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he…
— Maureen O'Hara
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But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't have a nice…
— Eleanor Clift
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior…
— George Washington
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
— C.S. Lewis
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
— Barry Eisler
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Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.
— Alma Gluck
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very…
— Horace Walpole
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his…
— A. E. Housman
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These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead.…
— A. E. Housman
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I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.
— Larry Holmes
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It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be…
— Robbie Fowler
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She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.
— Nora Roberts
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The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude…
— Azar Nafisi
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Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of…
— Mike Rowe
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