Quotes About Ruthlessness

There was a streak of austerity in him that welcomed hardship, and even, he imagined, was ready to welcome pain. It bred courage, it sifted the true from the false, and courage and truth were companions who would outpace all the others; when dreams had withered and happiness was forgotten they were still there. For their sakes he was prepared to suffer much himself and to see others suffer. Lucilla had been right to recognize in his face that night a hint of ruthlessness.

The huntsman of the Libyan desert, the discerning art collector, the tolerant intellectual, disappeared, and in their place Hadrian emerged as a model of Roman power responding to perceived threat with absolute ruthlessness. Generosity became irresolution, tolerance turned into suppression, pragmatism into punitively enforced proscription.

What Wilson aspired to be, to be hailed as the savior of his people and the light of humanity, Lenin had already achieved, but through unbelievable brutality and ruthlessness, and in a broken, starving country.

When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Don't forget that the ocean is full of everything except mercy.

By God!" said Mr. Wharton, rising from his chair suddenly, "if there were money to be made by it, I believe that he would murder you without scruple

Not surprisingly, American officers regarded their British counter parts as 'too polite' and lacking a necessary ruthlessness, especially when it came to sacking incompetent commanders. Churchill

There is no beast more stubborn than a woman. And neither fire nor leopard is more ruthless.

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us).

When Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603) found out who had published a nasty pamphlet about her, she had the authors' right hands cut off. Now there's an idea! (Or not.) For the moment, let's say that a Mean Girl is treating you

That's what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends - ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.

At dinner, Mr. Marten produced his elegant place cards and assigned us places with the arbitrary ruthlessness of a dictator.

Los comunistas no se sienten obligados a mantener las promesas que hacen a sus enemigos. A guisa de medios para conseguir sus fines, no vacilan en emplear todas las artimañas y astucias que pueden servirles —y esto incluye las amenazas y las promesas

Je?eli mog? by? bezwzgl?dny dla innych musz? by? bezwzgl?dny dla siebie.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.

He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair. She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?' 'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep.

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Like a child, too, he was warm, unaffected, and selfish. He had the combination, irresistible to women, of ruthlessness and tenderness.

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

One of the striking effects of imperialism upon Athenian democracy was a hardening and increasing ruthlessness of the citizens.

Finally, there is every indication that Putin's government worked neither to prevent terrorist attacks nor to resolve crises peacefully when they occurred; moreover, the president consistently and increasingly staked his reputation not only on his own determination to "rub them out" whatever the circumstances but also on the terrorists' perceived ruthlessness.

He saw the tension of the face, the speed of the walk, the drunken exhilaration of the body, drunk on the energy of sleepless nights, the proud lift of the head, the clear, steady, ruthless eyes, the eyes of a man who drove himself without pity toward that which he wanted.