Mercenary Quotes

43 quotes by 38 authors

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
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
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
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
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. — Joseph Pulitzer
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
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
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
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
Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. — C.S. Lewis
I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead. — Barry Eisler
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
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
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
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
I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter. — Larry Holmes
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
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
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
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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