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Simplicity requires ruthlessness. -- Tim Ferriss
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. -- William Shakespeare
To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue. -- Jean Racine
Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy. -- Franz Grillparzer
Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness. -- Chris Hedges
I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'. -- Orson Scott Card
You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently. -- Cassandra Clare
He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye. -- Orson Scott Card
Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. -- Aldous Huxley
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
Like one of those fake-smart, middlebrow TV shows, the speciousness of The Social Network is disguised by topicality. It's really a movie excusing Hollywood ruthlessness. -- Armond White
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him. -- Ratan Tata
So if we can we'll kill every last of the buggers, and if they can they'll kill every last one of us. As for me,' said Ender, 'I'm in favor of surviving'. -- Orson Scott Card
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness, an impatience with sloppy thinking can naturally to both of us. -- Francis Crick
Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood? -- Pablo Neruda
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. -- Nelson Algren
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and - until the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself - an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich. -- William L. Shirer
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. -- Eric Hoffer
In landing operations, retreat is impossible, to surrender is as ignoble as it is foolish. above all else remember that we as attackers have the initiative, we know exactly what we are going to do, while the enemy is ignorant of our intentions and can only parry our blows. We must retain this tremendous advantage by always attacking rapidly, ruthlessly, viciously, and without rest. -- George S. Patton
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. -- Dodie Smith
He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success. -- Barbara W. Tuchman
He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. -- T.J. Stiles
The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue. -- Salman Rushdie
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. -- Ken Follett
A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves. -- Confucius
The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. -- Ronald Reagan
Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success. -- Sting
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. -- Eric Hoffer
In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly righteous.Listen to these people, before the Earth repents of mankind. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own. -- Harold Wilson
Mordak has the mental clarity to recognise that when it comes to running a bureaucracy, Elves can achieve a degree of blinkered ruthlessness that makes goblins look like teddy-bears. -- Tom Holt
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it. -- May Sarton
Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi -- Deborah Harkness
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to the same practical result "? ruthlessness in political life. -- Richard Hofstadter
There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and the vague stirrings of decency that go with individual judgment. -- Eric Hoffer
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought. -- Winston Churchill
Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying. -- Jackie Robinson

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