Simplicity requires ruthlessness.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.

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

To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

Disregard for the consequences and for right and wrong nowadays passes as energy.

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

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

You have ruthlessness in your bones and ice in your heart, Clarissa. Don't tell me any differently.

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

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.

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.

'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'.

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.

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.

I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

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