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

    Love   Affair   Goodness  
    Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage
  • The only way out is through.

    Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.14, Harvard University Press
  • The Renaissance was a time of mercenary soldiers, ours is a time of mercenary labor.

    "Before the Sabbath". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1979.
  • When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

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

    Earth   Daring   Kill Me  
  • A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

    Joseph Pulitzer, Michael Edgar Pulitzer (1989). “Pulitzer Publishing Company: Newspapers and Broadcasting in the Public Interest”
  • The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

    Attitude   Passion   Land  
    Azar Nafisi (2014). “The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books”, p.20, Penguin
  • It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

    David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC
  • That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members. Such a sentiment, which had rendered the legions of the republic almost invincible, could make but a very feeble impression on the mercenary servants of a despotic prince; and it became necessary to supply that defect by other motives, of a different, but not less forcible nature; honour and religion.

    Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.15, Modern Library
  • What I do for a living is somewhat like mercenary prostitution. I spend a lot of energy trying to find games to bring to alternate platforms, like Linux and MacOS, and in my free time, I work on various open source projects, and other freebies like that. So I guess I'm a hooker with a heart of gold, sorta.

    Heart   Games   Trying  
    Interview with Michael Larabel, www.phoronix.com. June 13, 2005.
  • We are afraid that Heaven is a bribe, and that if we make it our goal we shall no longer be disinterested. It is not so. Heaven offers nothing that the mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks to enjoy its object.

  • Three classes inhabited the city (Alexandria in Egypt): first the Aegyptian or native stock of people, who were quick-tempered and not inclined to civil life; and secondly the mercenary class, who were severe and numerous and intractable...; and, third, the tribe of the Alexandrians, who also were not distinctly inclined to civil life, and for the same reasons, but still they were better than those others, for even though they were a mixed people, still they were Greeks by origin and mindful of the customs common to the Greeks.

    Cities   Egypt   Class  
  • There are people we treat wrong and later we're prepared to treat other people right. Perhaps this sounds mercenary, but I feel grateful for these trial relationships, and I would like to think it all evens out - surely, unknowingly, I have served as practice for other people.

  • 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

  • As for my family, my father was Danel; he died as a mercenary in the southern wars," Han went on. "My mother's name was Sarah, called Sali, and my sister was Mari. They died last summer. But then, you already knew that. Every time you forget, I'll remind you. That's the blood sacrifice I made to be here, and that's enough.

    Summer   Mother   Father  
  • Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery.

    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1951). “The kingdom of God: and peace essays”
  • Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

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

    Coffee   Boys   Hot  
    Jonathan Stroud (2005). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book Three: Ptolemy's Gate”, Disney-Hyperion
  • 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.

    Hate   Acting   Roles  
    "My mind is as blank as fresh snow" by John Aizlewood, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2001.
  • "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."

    Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.245
  • The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

    Income   Crime   Taxes  
    Rex Stout (2011). “THREE MEN OUT”, p.156, Crimeline
  • If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

    Lasts   Violence   Enough  
    "Schlock Mercenary" by Howard Tayler,
  • Most of the things I do brand wise are both missionary and mercenary in their position, and that's really important to me; that's one of the first things I look at when I say, 'does it make sense to do a deal?'

  • 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.

    George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1776). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.212
  • 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.

    Body   Weapons   Crackers  
    Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet”, p.161, Hachette UK
  • Many men who do creditable things refuse to let it be known. This is a mistake. While we all admire modesty, nevertheless there is a great national need to do everything possible to bring home to the rank and file of the people that all employers and all wealthy men are not grinding, mercenary, selfish skinflints, but that many of them take delight in doing helpful things for others ... Shortcomings of employers are constantly paraded. Why not let the public become acquainted with the better side which most present-day employers possess?

    Selfish   Mistake   Home  
  • Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.

    Wisdom   Heaven   Soul  
    C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.227, Simon and Schuster
  • Money is both the generation and corruption of purchased honor; honor is both the child and slave of potent money: the credit which honor hath lost, money hath found. When honor grew mercenary, money grew honorable. The way to be truly noble is to contemn both.

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

    People   Actors   Want  
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