Ruthless Quotes - Page 12

• Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves (the elites) at the top of a new hierarchy of power.

  Murray Rothbard

  Hierarchy, Absurd, Behinds

  Murray Rothbard (2009). “Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8”, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

  David Canary

  Fun, Two, Doe

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• Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual concentrated entirely on that one idea and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.

  Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

  Kindness, Men, Ideas

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• Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.

  Bill Hybels

  Commitment, Leader, Needs

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• Making a decision to be a public figure isn't their choice right now. I don't think it's fair. Even though they're beautiful and I love them, they haven't made that decision yet. I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Beautiful, Baby, Thinking

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• I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.

  Julian Schnabel

  Artist, People, Great Art

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• 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 having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.

  Paul Valery

  Sorry, Men, Giving

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• 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 was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror!

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Pride, Expression

  Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)

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• There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Sight, Needs, Way

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• You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, People, Enough

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• Fear is shiny. Ruthless in the eyes.

  Markus Zusak

  Eye

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.199, RH Childrens Books

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• I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.

  Julian Barnes

  Sibling, Believe, Helping Others

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• Sallie Mae sounds like a naive and barefoot hillbilly girl but in fact they are a ruthless and aggressive conglomeration of bullies located in a tall brick building somewhere in Kansas. I picture it to be the tallest building in that state and I have decided they hire their employees straight out of prison.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Kansas, Bully

  "Saddled with student debt? Welcome to America's screwed generation" by Natalia Antonova, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• 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 and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hype, Deceit, Definitions

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• Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.

  Claire Messud

  Artist, World, Definitions

  Claire Messud (2013). “The Woman Upstairs”, p.138, Vintage

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• ...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be.

  Karl Marx

  Criticism, Littles, Conflict

  Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

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• The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.

  Vladimir Lenin

  War, Relief, Alternatives

  "The Impending Catastrophe and How to Combat It". October 1917 pamphlet. Collected Works, Volume 25, pages 323-369,

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• 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 the teeth/ with snares, tranquilizing guns, other. Enslaving them forever, then murdering them, THEN calling them 'dumb'!!!

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Gun, Men

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• 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 conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence.

  Jack London

  Struggle, Decay, Pieces

  Jack London (2009). “The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories”, p.21, Oxford Paperbacks

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• If you find yourself under lethal attack don't be kind. Be harsh. Be tough. Be ruthless.

  Jeff Cooper

  Finding Yourself, Be Kind, Tough

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.45, Paladin Press

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• A materialistic person is ruthless with other people but kind to himself. A spiritual person is ruthless with himself but kind to everybody else.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, People, Humanity

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Writing, Fighting

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Mushrooms, Overdue

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• Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

  Peter Singer

  Challenges, Rebel, Genuine

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Judging, Matter, Delaware

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017). “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy”, p.149, One World

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