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Quotes About Mercilessness

These people's souls are dead: their thoughts are fixed in straight inflexible lines; and they are merciless as only a convinced and stupid man can be.
~ A. I. Kuprin
They're strong, they're fast, and the kill without mercy or hesitation. They're immortal, too-which kind of makes them a bitch to destroy.
~ Richelle Mead
Those who seek to achieve things should show no mercy. Kautilya, Indian philosopher third century B.C. OBSERVANCE
~ Robert Greene
Animals will be slaughtered mercilessly. Children, women and the elderly will be neglected and abused.
~ Krishna Dharma
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
~ Dodie Smith
She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
You must be quicker to strike and quicker when you do. You must be tougher and cleverer, you must always look to attack, and you must fight without honour, without conscience, without pity.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
~ Tennessee Williams
Republicanul îi guverna cu asprime. Om al teoriilor, nu preÈ›uia decît masele È™i se ar?ta f?r? mil? fa?? de indivizi./ Le républicain les gouvernait durement. Homme de théories, il ne considérait que les masses et se montrait impitoyable pour les individus. (©BeQ)
~ Gustave Flaubert
To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
~ Gretel Ehrlich
What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?
~ K?b? Abe
Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness.
~ Tove Jansson
she leaned forward over the table and whispered: 'This calm is unnatural. It means something terrible is going to happen. Dear Gaffsie, believe me, we are so very small and insignificant, and so are our tea cakes and carpets and all those things, you know, and still they're so important, but always they're threatened by mercilessness …
~ Tove Jansson
Man is not naturally a ferocious wild beast. On the contrary, he loves, ordinarily, to live in peace and quietness, to till his lands and tend his flocks, and to enjoy the blessings of peace and repose. It is comparatively but a small number in any age of the world, and in any nation, whose passions of ambition, hatred, or revenge become so strong as that they love bloodshed and war. But these few, when they once get weapons into their hands, trample recklessly and mercilessly upon the rest.
~ Jacob Abbott