Quotes About Mercenary

Naturally, nobody mentioned his infidelities, his treachery, his tendency toward domination and humiliation, his utterly mercenary approach to most art, his yelling, his firing people on a whim, his inability to or lack of desire to recognize the inner lives of others, his avarice, his all-around tendency to make

Do not say we work to go to Heaven because we are mercenary. Does a man love a woman and ask for her hand because he is mercenary? I love poetry; there's no money in it.

Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

The increasingly progressive messages in marketing campaigns are clearly a mercenary attempt to entice millennials: they are trying to be 'woke.'

Mercenary? No, I'm only farsighted. Though perhaps that is merely a synonym for mercenary. At least, people who were not as farsighted as I will call it that.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

To a Skandian, my boy, all war is business.

Esistono poi degli individui nati mercenari che non fanno alcun bene agli amici o ai parenti per il fatto che è dovuto; mentre dal fare un piacere a sconosciuti, traggono un pizzico d'amor proprio: più il cerchio dei loro affetti è vicino, meno amano; più si allarga, più diventano premurosi.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Paul Ryan is the mercenary champion of Hillary Clinton's - this is Hillary Clinton's. This came out of the State Department. This Trans Pacific Partnership is going to export our jobs. It's going to import foreign workers to replace Americans and our jobs.

The truth is that banks are the last feudal kingdoms, their rulers omnipotent, divine warlords. Their key lieutenants are 'ronin' (wandering mercenary samurai) who roam financial markets ready to ally themselves to any warlord for a share of plunder. This is not the place to apply the latest management theory.

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The

Essentially, the mercenary sets morality aside, or at best reorders the customary structures to fit the needs of his way of life. The great issues become how well he does his job, how faithfully he carries out his commission, how well he adheres to a standard demanding unswerving loyalties to his comrades. He dehumanizes the world outside the bounds of his outfit. Then anything he does, or witnesses, becomes of minor significance as long as its brunt is borne outside the Company

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people's actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

That's how you tell a merc is dead; he just stops collecting paychecks.

It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life.   —Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary of the fifth century B.C.

COMBATING RESISTANCE Turning Pro It is one thing to study war and another to live the warrior's life. — Telamon of Arcadia, mercenary

All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump's attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wouldn't pay us to be there, then we didn't want to be there. As if there were no American interests in forging and keeping a peaceful world order, as if the American organizing principle was money.

Amazon may be the most beguiling company that ever existed, and it is just getting started. It is both missionary and mercenary, and throughout the history of business and other human affairs, that has always been a potent combination.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

I like cutting off toes," Tonk Fah noted. "That's different," Denth said. "You wouldn't do it simply because your contract ran out, would you?" "Nah," Tonk Fah said. "Toes is toes.

These in the day when heaven was falling, when earth's foundations fled, followed their mercenary calling, took their wages and are dead.