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History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers. — Manjul Bajaj

We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity. — Otto Von Bismarck

I don't have enough scruples to start violating the few I do. — C.T. Phipps

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. — Alfred Hitchcock

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal. — Boris Yeltsin

I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment. — Agatha Christie

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

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner

Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating. — George Eliot

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett

...without any conscientious scruples condoning impurity in themselves, required ideal and angelic purity in their women... — Leo Tolstoy

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. — Thomas De Quincey

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting. — William Morris Hunt

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul De Gondi

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

I have the knack of easing scruples. — Moliere

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well. — Aeschylus

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. — George Eliot

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples? — Alex Flinn

Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right. — Judith Krantz

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. — Ken Follett

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

The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples. — Ogden Nash

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas A Kempis

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear. — Benjamin Franklin

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. — Arthur Koestler

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She — Ken Follett

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer