Mercenary Quotes

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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship. But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every day American publishers.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

All flatterers are mercenary, and all low-minded men are flatterers.

You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime!

A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.

I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.

If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?

Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

When the public loses faith in democracy's ability to solve the problems it has created for itself, the game's almost over. And I think we are this close to losing democracy to the mercenary class.

You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev)

I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.

She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion.

A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

When I said "the pocket of the banks," it is not necessarily a mercenary relationship. It is a mindset.

The mercenary finished his coffee in a single gulp, It must have been piping hot, too. Boy, he was tough.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations play an important part in the determination of personal conduct.

I've made peace with myself.Good for you. That's the hardest war of all to win.Didn't say I won. Just stopped fighting.

If I die, I want to die for something I believe in and take my word for it, there isn’t much out there. But you, Rachel, you’re worth dying for.” - Tristan Jacobs

We either need an overwhelming force advantage, or we need more information.""Reinforcements cut into our bounty, remember?""It's unanimous. We need more information.

It is very easy to be a military strategist, a mercenary, or a king, but much harder to be a father.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.