Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Every patriot believes his country better than any other country. . . In its active manifestation-it is fond of killing-patriotism would be well enough if it were simply defensive, but it is also aggressive. . . Patriotism deliberately and with folly aforethought subordinates the interests of a whole to the interests of a part. . . Patriotism is fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave and blind as a stone.
Intellect is a fire; rash and pitiless it melts this wonderful bone-house which is called man. Genius even, as it is the greatestgood, is the greatest harm.
War, like children's fights, are meaningless, pitiless, and contemptible.
Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
As gas-light is found to be the best nocturnal police, so the universe protects itself by pitiless publicity.
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
She was yours, if you'd truly wanted her," Harry continued, a pitiless smile touching his lips. "But I wanted her more.
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete decadence, a prisoner of words, caught in its own vocabulary, capable merely of stereotyped replies, constantly at a loss when faced with truth, from which it nevertheless claimed to derive its laws. The Left is schizophrenic and needs doctoring through pitiless self-criticism, exercise of the heart, close reasoning, and a little modesty.
