Ruthless Quotes

• This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Wicked World, World, Ruthlessness

  "Fictional character: Henri Verdoux". "Monsieur Verdoux", 1947.

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• The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.

  Yuu Watase

  Humans, Cornered

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• Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

  Francesca Marciano

  People, Hatred, Way

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• A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

  Confucius

  Men, Doe, Ruthlessness

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• I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Joy, Battle

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• Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

  Taylor Swift

  Games, Play, Life Is

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• Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Grace, Challenges

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• You have to be ruthless with yourself, in terms of being honest about what is working and what is not.

  Patton Oswalt

  Honest, Being Honest, Term

  "Patton Oswalt Talks TRAGEDY PLUS COMEDY EQUALS TIME, Doing Another Stand-Up Special, Preparing to Shoot Live Performances & Upcoming TV Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 16, 2014.

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• People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, People, Political

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre of national life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Fighting, Brutality

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.399, Princeton University Press

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• Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

  Petrarch

  Overcoming, Strive

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• Love is ruthless; it doesn't feel sorry for anyone, but it does have compassion. Fear is full of pity; it feels sorry for everyone.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Sorry, Love Is, Compassion

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• We will be just as ruthless as any of our targets. We will go for the throat.

  Dan Mathews

  Animal, Target, Throat

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• I know how to be strong. I know how to be ruthless. It's part of my nature. I wouldn't be an actor if I wasn't.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Strong, Actors, Know How

  "Sir Anthony Hopkins Interview THE WOLFMAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 8, 2010.

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• Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

  Robert Kennedy

  I Can

  "Esquire" Magazine, April 1965.

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• It's best to be ruthless with the past.

  Stephen King

  Past

  Stephen King (2016). “Rose Madder”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.

  Graham Greene

  Heart, Misery, Dictator

  Graham Greene (1960). “The Heart of The Matter”

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• 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

  Sports, Children, Heart

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• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, People, Interesting

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• Mother Nature's ruthless to the weak, but isn't arbitrary cruel or negative. Mother Nature saves aggression for extreme situations, and instead uses consistent leadership--to help keep things running smoothly. Mother nature doesn't rule by fear and anger, but by calm strength and assertiveness.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Running, Negative

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• War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

  George S. Patton

  War, Simple, Men

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• A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth. Take this away and a democracy dies. The fusion of news and entertainment, the rise of a class of celebrity journalists on television who define reporting by their access to the famous and the powerful, the retreat by many readers into the ideological ghettos of the Internet and the ruthless drive by corporations to destroy the traditional news business are leaving us deaf, dumb and blind.

  Chris Hedges

  Powerful, Lying, Ghetto

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• People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

  Anthony de Mello

  Ideas, People, Murderer

  "Awareness : The Perils and Oppurtunities of Reality". Book by Anthony de Mello (p. 7), 1992.

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• I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

  Sylvia Porter

  Writing, Names, Noise

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• These CEOs, man ... If you're that ruthless, you're a scary dude. I tell you, now when I walk past a little gang banger, I don't even blink. But if I see a white dude with a Wall Street Journal, I haul ass. Before I walk past the Arthur Andersen building, I cut through the projects. If you cut through the projects, you may just lose what you have on you that day. I ain't never been mugged of my whole future.

  Wanda Sykes

  Wall, Cutting, Past

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