Ruthlessness Quotes

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.

'So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.