Top 77 Ruthless Quotes

The insatiable need for heartless power and ruthless control is the telltale sign of an uninitiated man – the most irresponsible, incompetent and destructive force on earth.

Television audiences are ruthless – look what happened to ‘The Killing.’

From before I was born, we Arabs have been caught between two forces that, seemingly, cannot be defeated: our ruthless dictators, who oppress and humiliate us, and the cynical western powers, who would rather see us ruled by criminals loyal to them than have democratically elected leaders accountable to us.

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.

Fact check: The examples of failed socialism that critics use are not socialist democracies but authoritarian states led by corrupt, ruthless, and paranoid dictators.

I think what makes me so appealing is the audience doesn’t expect me to be so ruthless.

Bling is passe, and I like my style to reflect just that. Ruthless editing defines true style perfectly.

Because my writing time has always been very limited, I try to be very choosy about which stories I work on. There are many ideas that would make interesting stories – too many – so it’s important to be ruthless and say no to most of them.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless… Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

Chicago, to me, is the best wrestling crowd on the planet. They are the best. They are loud, they are ruthless, and they will tear you down if you let them.

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.

I don’t see I’ll ever arrive at the point where I’ll say, ‘Lance old boy, you’ve arrived at success.’ There’s no question about it. Once you get to the point where you’ve arrived at a station called success, you get complacent and lethargic. Those goals you set keep changing. But it’s not a ruthless sort of thing.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he’s ready to go after you.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

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.

Look at these ISIS people. These people are ruthless. They don’t operate by any sort of normal civilized code. That’s the world. There’s a shadow world that exists out there.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

At the top end of the Premier League, you have to be ruthless. Even just to get in the top four is hard.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

The golf facet of my life doesn’t go with the rest of my life, which is a rough-and-tumble life. I work in real estate development, which is the toughest business, and I do it in the toughest city. I deal with ruthless people.

He was everything I didn’t expect. I had just seen him in Get Carter’ and he seemed so aggressive and ruthless. Instead, I found him charming and very gentle, someone whom I’d like to spend part of my life with. Michael was at that time still very much against marriage.

Ruthless Villain’ was supposed to be E’s song. But it was too fast for him, so when I rapped it, they was like, ‘Man, you might as well just get in the group.’

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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.

I’m fun, ruthless, articulate, impatient, maybe a little cavalier. I’m a woman and a feminist. I’m transgender. I’m an actress, a reluctant writer, occasionally a potato-shaped model.

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney’s private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

I’m absolutely gonna win it, because I’m ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.

People are ruthless, man.

It’s funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the ‘Godfathers’ and ‘Scarface,’ and they were the coolest. They’re just really interesting stories with great characters. They’re rock stars.

The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes – totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.

I was known for being quite… ruthless at ABB. I drove hard targets, pushed my people. But I was always fair. Once I was convinced of someone, I let them handle things themselves. But if you kept doing badly, there was no place for you.

We tend to read each other’s books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don’t know that you could say we are ruthless with each other – in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive.

As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.

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

You not only have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring.

In 2001, I did some research and identified four characteristics that successful companies share. One, they aspire to be leaders in their businesses. Two, they have global potential. Three, they are innovative. Four, they display a ruthless focus on financial returns.

‘A Just Defiance’ has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.

I feel fortunate every day I’m in this business. No matter how hard it is, no matter how ruthless some people are, I was born to do this; I was born for movies.

There’s definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it’s rewarded.

Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.

Even before I got to WWE, I studied Triple H. He was one of my favorite superstars; his wrestling was ruthless, and I think a lot of his style you can see in me a little bit.

When E started Ruthless, we didn’t have to listen to anybody tellin’ us what we had to do. That’s why the music was so powerful, ’cause we didn’t have no barriers.

We can’t be dominated by ruthless terrorism and the American principle is that we never will be.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

I’m trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

Choosing to arm and train the Islamist opposition against dictator Moammar Gadhafi unleashed its most ruthless terrorist elements.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.

My old man was ruthless. He terrorised us.

Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.