Top 148 Merciless Quotes & Sayings

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.

I'm my own most merciless critic onstage.

Throughout history, religious wars have always been the most brutal and cruel and merciless.

A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate

Nature is so merciless - but so righteous.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.

Economic man and the Calvinist Christian sing to each other like voices in a fugue. The Calvinist stands alone before an almost merciless God; no human agency can help him; his church is a means to political and social organization rather than a bridge to deity, for no priest can have greater knowledge of the divine way than he himself; no friend can console him - in fact, he should distrust all men; in the same fashion, Economic Man faces a merciless world alone and unaided, his hand against every other's.

If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory.

Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

Love's merciless, the way it travels in and keeps emitting light.

My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

May I never, I say, become that abnormal, merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity - a virtuous woman.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

I think you have to be completely merciless with yourself.

...the Church is the merciless heart of the State.

Reductionism is merciless.

[Marriage] is the merciless revealer, the great white searchlight turned on the darkest places of human nature.

Movies are, like sharp sunlight, merciless; we do not imagine, we view.

The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that.

Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

I had rather stand the shock of a basilisk than the fury of a merciless pen.

If you spent your weekends in the clubs, you could see the change in the eyes of the people. They became merciless, in a way, in their desire to be entertained.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

Please, people, do not f- with depression. It's merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.

My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh.

No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . ." A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room.

The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and one of the last relics of bygone shameful times of merciless imperialism, conquest, exploitation is on the cards.

There is no tyrant as merciless as pain.

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are.

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite.

Ben Hogan is the most merciless of all the modern golfers.

France, because it was attacked cowardly, shamelessly, violently, France will be merciless against the barbarians of Daesh.

Surely oak and threefold brass surrounded his heart who first trusted a frail vessel to the merciless ocean.

Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

I love UFC, vigilante films, and any acts of merciless heroism.

September 11 was a godsend for Israel. It could now conjoin its merciless persecution of the Palestinians with Bush's War against Terror. But my impression is that it wasn't altogether successful.