Ruthless Quotes
248 quotes by 223 authors
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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
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This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.
— Charlie Chaplin
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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
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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
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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
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I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
— Mike Tyson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The celebrity-making machine-photographers, paparazzi, press and stuff like that-can be ruthless.
— Catherine Keener
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