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Quotes About Ruthless

What Makes Sammy Run?
~ Budd Schulberg
You have to be very mean to get a laugh on the campaign trail. There is no such thing as paranoia.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The light of artistic creation is also blinding. The artist can't see the suffering he causes to those around him. And the'll never understand the purity of his goal, how the heat of his invention won't melt the ice in his heart. He must be ruthless! No religion, no purpose except this: Make something perfect before you die. Life is short, art is for all time
~ Ian Mcewan
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
~ Mike Tyson
John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.
~ Douglas Brinkley
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
~ Felix Dennis
Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.
~ Jaboukie Young-White
It was a cutthroat business, dog eat dog, the strong preying on the weak. In the lifestyle I was in, people were killed. It happened every day.
~ Mitch Albom
Authoritarian socialism and capitalism share strong tendencies toward centralizing (one in the hands of the state, the other in the hands of corporations). They also both keep their respective systems going through ruthless expansion—whether through production for production's sake, in the case of Soviet-era socialism, or consumption for consumption's sake, in the case of consumer capitalism.
~ Naomi Klein
Poverty needs no plan. It needs no one to aid it, because it is bold and ruthless. Riches are shy and timid. They have to be "attracted.
~ Napoleon Hill
achieving this greatness is never free. It requires focus and elevation of improvement of daily work, even over daily work itself. Without this ruthless focus, every simple system degrades over time, increasingly buried under a tundra of technical debt.
~ Gene Kim
While you and I are allowed the luxury of our pain, president isn't. A president must take into account how his citizens feel and he must manage them and lead them, but he must not succumb to personal feelings. His job is to maintain a ruthless sense of proportion while keeping the coldness of his calculation to himself.
~ George Friedman
There are many different kinds of evil. Some people are evil because they like to cause pain. Some people are evil because they are selfish and care only about themselves. He is the worst kind of evil. He believes he knows how to bring about a better future, and, if he has to, he will pave the road to it with corpses of innocent people. He has no boundaries. There is nothing he won't do to get his way." "What
~ Ilona Andrews
Ooo." Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. "Mean. I like mean.
~ Ilona Andrews
Here she was serving cosmic cookies and wine to a queen of enlightened predators and the head of a clan of ruthless assassins. Nothing much at stake except an interstellar alliance. Whee!
~ Ilona Andrews
And this great love makes you both ruthless .
~ Iris Murdoch
The great evil, the dreadful evil, that which made war and slavery and all man's inhumanity to man lay in the cool self-justifying ruthless selfishness of quite ordinary people, such as Biranne, and himself.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps you could not find such godless, such ruthless and such materialist people as clergy.
~ Irving Stone
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
~ Joseph Joubert
I'm ruthless and truthful.
~ Tulisa
Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.
~ Lee Van Cleef
If you want to be an actor, you must have total, ruthless commitment to your art. Don't be ambitious for fame or TV or movies. Art is a jealous mistress and will brook no competitors. Study all the time. Never stop reading. Never stop learning speeches. It will fill you up - define and refine you.
~ Steven Berkoff
Attack rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, without rest, however tired and hungry you may be, the enemy will be more tired, more hungry. Keep punching.
~ George S. Patton
The war is relentless: it puts the alternative in a ruthless relief.
~ Vladimir Lenin