Ruthless Quotes - Page 6

• As Americans, we want peace - we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Sacrifice, Hussein

  Address to the Nation on the Threat of Iraq, delivered 7 October 2002, Cincinnati Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio

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• I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Fear, Heart

  YouTube Chanel "sheltonn"/ "Mike Tyson" (Interview with Jim Gray), www.youtube.com. February 5, 2006.

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• We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence — on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Army, Night

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Christmas, People, Car

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• Making out an invitation list for a party brings out the worst in everyone. It is then that our most ruthless estimates of the people we know come into play.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Party, Play, People

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• It is said that it is far more difficult to hold and maintain leadership (liberty) than it is to attain it. Success is a ruthless competitor for it flatters and nourishes our weaknesses and lulls us into complacency. We bask in the sunshine of accomplishment and lose the spirit of humility which helps us visualize all the factors which have contributed to our success. We are apt to forget that we are only one of a team, that in unity there is strength and that we are strong only as long as each unit in our organization functions with precision.

  Samuel J. Tilden

  Leadership, Strong, Team

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• After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

  Denis Johnson

  Rain, Light, Neon

  Denis Johnson (2010). “Nobody Move: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• A man can be called ruthless if he bombs a country to oblivion. A woman can be called ruthless if she puts you on hold.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Men, Bombs

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• I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Thinking, Over You, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is no end and there is no beginning. There is only eternity. Eternity can be warm. eternity can be cold and ruthless.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Cold

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• This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence.

  Ian Mcewan

  Sweet, Children, Pain

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• The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of our own being.

  Thomas Merton

  Suicidal, Evil, World

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.222, Image

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• If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.

  Henry A. Wallace

  War, Patriotic, May

  "The Danger of American Fascism". New York Times (April 9, 1944). Quoted in: "Democracy Reborn", p. 259, 1944.

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• How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?

  Leigh Newman

  Mean, Longing, Wisps

  Leigh Newman (2013). “Still Points North: One Alaskan Childhood, One Grown-up World, One Long Journey Home”, p.170, Dial Press

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Meaningful, Fighting, Justice

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Selfish, Ambition

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• Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mean, Men, Mets

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• He likes to take strolls by himself and believes dog-catchers are friendly innkeepers who'll take care of a meal. He's gullible and has never learned to fight back against a ruthless world.

  Tom Hayden

  Dog, Believe, Fighting

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• The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.

  Sam Vaknin

  Devastation, Emotion, Narcissist

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• Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.

  Ian Hogarth

  Exercise, Ideas, People

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• In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

  Nikola Tesla

  Past, Men, Law

  "A Machine to End War" by Nikola Tesla, 1937.

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• It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks are done. The fact is you're still just another slack-jawed mark in the audience. No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

  Tana French

  Real, Smart, Believe

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Emotional, False Love

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.313, Cambridge University Press

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