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“He's horrible."
"But effective. Being angry at Kaz for being ruthless is like being angry at a stove for being hot.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness. ”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It's best to be ruthless with the past.”
― Stephen King, Rose Madder

“The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Hey!' she said, punching Hanna's arm hard. 'Where have you been, bitch? I've been looking all over for you!”
― Sara Shepard, Ruthless

“A man's greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed, to see those whom they cherished in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.”
― Ghengis Khan

“The only men ruthless enough to fight against tyranny were themselves inclined to it.”
― Susan Wise Bauer, The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome

“Let them fear her”
― Emily A. Duncan, Wicked Saints

“It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity! Or remorse or fear and it absolutely will not stop!... ever... until you are dead!”
― James Cameron, The Terminator

“One might have to be a little ruthless to seize back control of one's life, don't you think?”
― Nina George, The Little French Bistro

“Be ruthless! Say no to everything that is either not essential or doesn’t add something of value to your life.”
― Dee Waldeck

“If you want to survive, you're going to have to learn to be ruthless...”
― Suzanne Lowe, Seventeen

“There was an infinitesimal pause while he watched her face, as though he half expected her to recognise it, before he went on, 'My friends call me Thorn,' and gave her a smile of such devastating charm that she blinked.

Her hand clasped in his, her senses zinging from his touch and that stunning smile, she stared into his dark, handsome face until, realising that she was gawking at him like some overgrown schoolgirl, she withdrew her hand and asked quickly, 'What do your enemies call you?”
― Lee Wilkinson, Ruthless!

“They are as smart as they are ruthless. That's why they've been around for all five years.”
― Joe Reyes, Aftermath

“All humankind is born of the same inner goodness and fundamental ruthlessness as all the other creatures of nature. Man can never totally divorce himself from the beast that comprises part of his essential nature. It is not that our inner natures are entirely self-centered or completely filled with goodness. We can choose to make moral or immoral choices.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.

Flavia de Luce”
― Alan Bradley, Speaking from Among the Bones

“And this great love makes you both ruthless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“How do you decide which man deserves punishment and which does not? How can you judge for certain, this heart is rotted and this one good? What if you make a mistake?â€�
[...] “Let us consider,� I said, “a boatload of sailors. Among them, some are undoubtedly worse than others. Some exult in rape and piracy, but others are newly come to it and scarcely have their beards. Some would never imagine robbery, except that their families are starving. Some feel shame after, some do it only because their captain commands it, and because they have the crowd of other men there, to hide among.�
“And so,� he said, “which do you change, and which do you let go?�
“I change them all,â€� I said. “They have come to my house. Why should I care what is in their hearts?”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It is brave to be ruthless towards the mother.”
― Will Walton, I Felt a Funeral, In My Brain

“The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.”
― William Blum

“I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force.”
― Heather Clark, Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

“You say just, Ellis says flatly. There is no just with Edward Monkford. Nothing's more important to him than getting his own way.”
― J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before

“What is hotter than the magma? A sincere smile! What is colder than the ice? A ruthless face!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A man in charge can't have men putting questions. Just can't have it. They come with questions first, then they come with knives.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“Architects can always make good use of vacant land, regardless of the horror that brought it into being: it is ruthless being that is supposed to make life possible again.”
― Christoph Grafe, OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“So what is there that was worth saving at the cost of everyone else?'

When I faced him, his blue eyes were as ruthless as the churning winter sea in the distance. 'Everything,' he said.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“I also realized that the media was ruthless enough to relentlessly chase one of their own if it made prime-time news.”
― Jigna Vora, Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison

“And now,
my words seem empty, hollow.

I am left allergic
to your presence,
disgraced me,
not once, but twice.

The very DNA we share
is tainted, fractured.

In the presence of all,
I shall bear it no more.”
― Nyx Thorn, VERSES OF THE BROKEN: Echoes From A Fractured Mind