Ruthlessness Quotes

Ruthlessness Quote of the day

I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.

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.

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.

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness.

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.

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

'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.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.

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

They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.

You must firmly, absolutely and ruthlessly protect your safety and sanity.

Politicians are a higher breed of men. They know that this world is ruthless and that they must live accordingly to cope with it

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.