Franklin D. Roosevelt
Politician
"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."
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Ruthlessness
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Jack Gilbert
Poet
"We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world."
Harold Wilson
Politician
"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."
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"This is a ruthless world and one must be ruthless to cope with it."
Confucius
Philosopher
"A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves."
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"To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue."
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"Simplicity requires ruthlessness."
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"Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness."
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"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."
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