Pitiless Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of… — Mark Twain
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country . . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough… — Ambrose Bierce
Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men… — Victor Hugo
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement… — Finley Peter Dunne
If the universe were just electrons and selfish genes, meaningless tragedies ... are exactly what we should expect, along with equally meaningless good fortune. Such… — Richard Dawkins
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove itâ€™s not. But itâ€™s some plan, isn't it? With… — Christopher Hitchens
Naturepitiless in a pitiless universeis certainly not concerned with the survival of Americans or, for that matter, of any of the two billion people now… — J. William Fulbright
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it… — William Hazlitt
The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the… — Antonya Nelson
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant. — Albert Camus
What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned… — Terence McKenna
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the… — Nikola Tesla
Their pitiless ideology only survives because it is maintained by force. But the day comes when the anger and frustration of the people is so… — Margaret Thatcher
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on… — Graham Greene
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing… — Richard Dawkins
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the… — Simone Weil
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo

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