Ruthless Quotes

248 quotes by 220 authors

There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used… — Steven Pinker
I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. — Lisa Marie Presley
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as… — Pythagoras
The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it. — Salman Rushdie
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and… — Nicole Scherzinger
A man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless. All a woman has to do is put you on hold. — Marlo Thomas
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes,… — Henry A. Wallace
There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless… — Henry A. Wallace
I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people. — James Woods
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise, fear and surprise; two chief weapons, fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency! Er, among our… — Graham Chapman
...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it… — Patti Smith
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate… — Bill Watterson
Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye. — Max Barry
A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all… — Gregory Maguire
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. — Cormac McCarthy
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
I have outlasted all desire, My dreams and I have grown apart; My grief alone is left entire, The gleamings of an empty heart. The… — Alexander Pushkin
The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing… — Jack London
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of… — Paul Valery
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I… — Joseph Conrad

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