Ruthless Quotes

248 Ruthless quotes by 220 unique authors

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out… — D. H. Lawrence
A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold. — Gloria Steinem
Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it… — Karel Capek
His enemies said he [Robert Kennedy] was consumed with selfish ambition, a ruthless opportunist exploiting his brother's legend. But he was too passionate and too… — Jack Newfield
There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless. — Frederick Lenz
How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are. — Hal Porter
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its… — Constance Rourke
I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive. — Alastair Campbell
There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry… — Jon Ronson
If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They… — Kelly Cutrone
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you. — Douglas Brinkley
Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless. — The Notorious B.I.G.
I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story. — Rachel Griffiths
Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other.… — Seth Grahame-Smith
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian Mcewan
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of… — Thomas Merton
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly… — Henry A. Wallace
Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just — Michela Wrong
How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it,… — Leigh Newman
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will… — Tariq Ali
O God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, even our brothers, the animals, to whom Thou gavest the earth as… — Saint Basil
We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the… — Pope Francis
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave' men armed to… — Adela Popescu
A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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