Quotes About Ruthlessness

they create desolation and call it peace'

Cicero had the men summarily executed, with not even a show trial. Triumphantly, he announced their deaths to the cheering crowd in a famous one-word euphemism: vixere, 'they have lived' – that is, 'they're dead'.

Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

What is she like? Evanjalin of the Monts?' he asked. Finnikin thought for a moment. 'Strong. In here,' he said, thumping his chest twice. 'Humbling. Ruthless. Cunning. She can love people with a fierceness that I have not seen before.' He smiled when he realized he was talking too much. 'And she looks like a Mont woman, so of course she's very beautiful.

Levi's motives were never quite as obvious. There was an Old Testament ruthlessness about him, Shambler thought, something inscrutably tribal at the root.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

I should've figured it out earlier, but I was so set on tearing off his head that I didn't think about other options. I'm going to bring him down so low that he has no allies and is running for his life on the streets. Then I'll tear off his head.

This time I am on a mission of no mercy.

You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.

Son of a bitch. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was Coyote or the son of Satan. He was a dead man walking.

Beware! In every man there lurks the falcon; a streak of ruthlessness and thirst for power.

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly

a ruthless nation with no respect for the old and no pity for the young.

A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.

This is the wicked manís portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.

The arrogant rise against me, O God; a band of ruthless men seeks my life, with no regard for You.

A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.

I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.

Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earthís ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.

For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans—that ruthless and impetuous nation which marches through the breadth of the earth to seize dwellings not their own.