Scruples Quotes

• Cuando una cosa se ha dicho y bien, no tengas escrúpulos. Tómalo y cópialo.

  Anatole France

  Inspiración, Libro, Cerveza

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• We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Mean, Blow, Order

  Le Monde, 2005.

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• En realidad, no hay nada que ganar. Si se tiene buen ojo, una mente ágil y ningún tipo de escrúpulos.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Bendito, Ojo, Ganar

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• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  Xunzi

  Dog, Numbers, Knowing

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• My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

  Edmond Rostand

  Men, Mustache, Spurs

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• Tengo el don de aliviar los escrúpulos.

  Moliere

  Knack

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• One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

  Markus Wolf

  Giving, Overcoming, Paper

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Optimism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Revolution, Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Some Reminicscences”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

  Helmut Jahn

  Integrity, Ambition, Usa

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• In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

  Ken Follett

  Weakness, Ruthlessness, Defeated

  Ken Follett (2011). “Ken Follett EPIC HISTORICAL COLLECTION”, p.1448, Penguin

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• I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Book, Way, Stealing

  Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

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• Vivimos en una época maravillosa en la que el fuerte es débil por sus escrúpulos morales y el débil se hace fuerte por su audacia.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Strong, Audacity, Moral

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• La escritura es la conciencia, el escrúpulo y la agricultura de nuestros antepasados.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Writing, Agriculture, Farming

  Edward Dahlberg (1964). "Limosna para el olvido: ensayos".

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• Prefiero tener como mecenas a un montón de ciudadanos anónimos que se rascan el bolsillo para pagar el precio de un libro o una revista que a un pequeño cuerpo de hombres ilustrados y responsables que administran fondos públicos. Prefiero que mi visión personal de la verdad se encuentre aquí y allá en el caos de la publicación que intentar filtrarla a través de unos pocos escrúpulos oficiales de honorable espíritu público.

  John Updike

  Arte, Libro, Hogar

  Testimonio de John Updike ante el Subcomité de Educación Selecta del Comité de Educación y Trabajo de la Cámara de Representantes en Boston, Massachusetts, el 30 de enero de 1978.

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• If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God.

  S. D Gordon

  Prayer, Simple, Joy

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• El oro es un maravilloso aclarador del entendimiento; disipa toda duda y escrúpulo en un instante.

  Joseph Addison

  Understanding, Doubt, Gold

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.563

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• Engañará sin escrúpulos a quien pueda sin miedo.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Cheating, Cheat

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). "Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack", p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

  Ogden Nash

  Money, Fun, Business

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• It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Honesty, Men, Yield

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). "Observaciones sobre los talentos de Lord Byron y las tendencias de Don Juan".

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• He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Truth, Lying, Littles

  "Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo" by Cicero, XX,

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• Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Reflection, Common

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• Cuida que las cosas salgan bien. Algunas personas se preocupan más por orientar las cosas en la dirección correcta que por alcanzar con éxito sus objetivos. La desgracia del fracaso pesa más que la diligencia que mostraron. A un ganador nunca se le piden explicaciones.

  Baltasar Gracián

  Success, Goal, People

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• Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pride, Concealed

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 4. 120, April 6, 1779.

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• I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

  George Washington

  Men, Say Anything, Smallest

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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