#ruthless

Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition. ↗

— Karel Capek

#cognition #creating #even #fighting #method

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

— Charlie Chaplin

#must #ruthless #world

He 's ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn't succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it's a great excuse. ↗

— Terence Fisher

#charge #could #excuse #fails #gets

Every nation has its war party... It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless. It tolerates no opposition. ↗

— Robert M. La Follette

#every #every nation #imperialistic #nation #opposition

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#completely #feel #intensely #needs #ruthlessly

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#anyone #bad #business #chance #disappear

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#cast #distress #emotions #goddess #great

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic. ↗

— Anatoly Karpov

#cases #conducted #even #game #get

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#classes #combined #cultures #deceit #ends

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. ↗

— Daniel De Leon

#away #capitalism #corrupts #destroys #exploits