Top 180 Hard Hitting Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I didn’t choose the thug life, the thug life chose me.”

— Tupac Shakur

52. “Freedom is not given – it is taken.”

— Subhas Chandra Bose

53. “There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”

— Warren Buffett

54. “A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.”

— Chanakya

55. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

56. “Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

57. “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

— Karl Marx

58. “Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.”

— Chanakya

59. “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.”

— George Orwell

60. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.”

— John Milton

61. “Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

62. “It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”

— Muhammad Ali

63. “The only reason we don’t have revival is because we are willing to live without it!”

— Leonard Ravenhill

64. “Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”

— Terry Pratchett

65. “And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

66. “If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

67. “In the end what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, and a slave obeys!”

— Andrew Ryan

68. “If you let them kill you, they will.”

— Charles Bukowski

69. “The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

70. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”

— Malcolm X

71. “If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.”

— Ernesto Che Guevara

72. “Those who don’t manage their money will always work for those who do.”

— Dave Ramsey

73. “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

— Winston Churchill

74. “Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’”

— Thomas Sowell

75. “Normality is what weak people call living, I call it death.”

— Greg Plitt

76. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.”

— Karl Marx

77. “If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

78. “In any war, you put your back to mine, I put my back to yours, and let’s do what we gotta do.”

— Ray Lewis

79. “No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.”

— William Whiting Borden

80. “I’d rather have ten people that want God than 10,000 people who want to play church.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

81. “People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

82. “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

— Malcolm X

83. “Average is a failing plan! Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.”

— Grant Cardone

84. “The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”

— David Morrison

85. “Victims make excuses. Leaders deliver results.”

— Robin S. Sharma

86. “Don’t be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage.”

— Mike Tyson

87. “The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”

— Albert Camus

88. “You’re either part of the solution or you’re part of the problem.”

— Eldridge Cleaver

89. “As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”

— Leo Tolstoy

90. “Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

91. “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

92. “How many deaths will it take ’till we know that too many people have died?”

— Bob Dylan

93. “You can’t get anywhere flying under the radar.”

— Grant Cardone

94. “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.”

— Charles Bukowski

95. “In case of doubt, attack.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

96. “Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.”

— Ruby Bridges

97. “No one hangs up the phone until the customer buys or dies.”

— Jordan Belfort

98. “Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

99. “You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

100. “If you run around with 9 losers pretty soon you’ll be the 10th loser.”

— Les Brown