#scrupulous

Honest businessmen should be protected from the unscrupulous consumer. ↗

— Lester Maddox

#consumer #honest #protected #should #unscrupulous

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#closely #examine #honesty #inescapable #only

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all. ↗

— Tacitus

#blessing #committed #crime #few #individuals

My father came from an intellectual and studious avenue as opposed to a brawler's avenue. So I had to go further afield and I brought all kinds of unscrupulous oiks back home - earless, toothless vagabonds - to teach me the arts of the old bagarre. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#avenue #back #brought #came #father

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#best #commonly #competition #does #fittest

Sonia's terribly fond of juggling with people's lives. I never shall forget when she made me go to her doctor...I can only say he very nearly killed me. It's not her fault if I'm here today. She's entirely unscrupulous. She gets a hold over people much too easily, with her charm and her prestige, and then forces her own values on them. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#unscrupulous #love

It is up to you to decide that this has lasted long enough, that our boys are dying to serve no British interest but for the interests of a small clique of utterly unscrupulous men. ↗

— John Amery

#clique #decide #dying #enough #interest

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. ↗

— Thomas Beecham

#arts #gigantic #men #racket #run

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. ↗

— George Eliot

#breath #charter #conscience #contest #dogma