Ruthless Quotes

248 quotes by 223 authors

Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the people of Palestine.… — Mahmoud Abbas
This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it. — Charlie Chaplin
The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest. — John Henrik Clarke
When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses… — Grover Cleveland
To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life... — Woodrow Wilson
I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been. — Mike Tyson
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they… — Carl Sagan
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern… — George F. Kennan
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and… — Michael Parenti
If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. — Henry A. Kissinger
People, you see... are ruthless and foolish. When they're young, in order to have money and power, they give up everything like health and youth.… — Jae Hee
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Once lead this people into war, and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless,… — Woodrow Wilson
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself,… — William Faulkner
There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets our norms and drives us from… — Eric Hoffer
Ruin seize thee, ruthless king! Confusion on thy banners wait! Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing, They mock the air with idle state. — Thomas Gray
That doctrine of peace at any price has done more mischief than any I can well recall that have been afloat in this country. It… — Benjamin Disraeli
The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless. — Catherine Keener

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