#ruthless

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

I've been chased through airports with a screaming baby because the photographers are ruthless, and they want the picture. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#because #been #chased #i #photographers

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. ↗

— Pythagoras

#continues #destroyer #each #health #kill

Those people are unabashedly ruthless as far as money is concerned. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#concerned #far #money #people #ruthless

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

— Rachel Griffiths

#i #i think #over #pretty #ruthless

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

— James Woods

#because #destroy #gonna #i #job

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#artist #ruthless #art

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person. ↗

— David Baldacci

#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

Elizabeth was counting on Marco to keep cousin Mary occupied until after the board meeting was over. A piece of cheese might catch a mouse, but an afternoon alone with a muscular masseur would ensnare her cousin far more effectively. And afterwards, while Mary lay sated and sleeping upon a massage table, wiser heads could determine the company's future. There were times, Elizabeth thought, when success in business demanded utter ruthlessness. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#success-strategies #women-s-strength #business