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Quotes About Unscrupulous

During the dot-com days, one could take just about any company public and reap fortunes. All you had to do was to make sky-high projections for growth, say you were in the Internet space, and go along with unscrupulous investment bankers and their analysts.
~ Vivek Wadhwa
It is the tyranny of the weak, isn't it? The weapons being tears, reproaches, vapours, and other such unscrupulous means which are employed by gentle, helpless women like your aunt!
~ Georgette Heyer
It was an effort not to let my fingers knot together, but Malkar had taught me, via his own brutal and unscrupulous methods, to counterfeit a nobleman's poise, and the old instincts were not lost.
~ Sarah Monette
He occasionally tried to fathom a comrade with seductive sentences. He looked about to find men in the proper mood. All attempts failed to bring forth any statement which looked in any way like a confession to those doubts which he privately acknowledged in himself. He was afraid to make an open declaration of his concern, because he dreaded to place some unscrupulous confidant upon the high plane of the unconfessed from which elevation he could be derided.
~ Stephen Crane
tiene menos escrúpulos que un buitre.
~ Jorge Fernández Díaz
I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.
~ Lisa Madigan
You set aggressive men on a course of unstructured competition, and they soon become desperate men in unscrupulous battle.
~ Bharati Mukherjee
Himmler is the man whom General Heinrich Hossbach described as "Hitler's evil spirit, cold, calculating and ambitious … undoubtedly the most purposeful and most unscrupulous figure in the Third Reich.
~ Bill Yenne
In the movie 'Star Trek 3: The Return of Spock,' I'm a really bad Klingon, and I really enjoyed playing that - somebody who's totally unscrupulous. It's like he was not genetically equipped to feel compassion or sensitivity. Just outright evil without apology.
~ Christopher Lloyd
I'm resourceful, Price is saying. I'm creative, I'm young, unscrupulous, highly motivate, highly skilled. In essence what I'm saying is that society can not afford to lose me. I'm an asset
~ Bret Easton Ellis
If a ruler who wants to act honourably is surrounded by unscrupulous men, his downfall is inevitable.
~ C.J. Sansom
Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.
~ Isaac Asimov
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Originality is a myth perpetuated by the naive, the romantic, and the unscrupulous.
~ Tom Robbins
We've seen unscrupulous legal firms racking up legal aid bills for fabricated accusations. And we've seen attempts by them to pursue cases that stand no chance of a conviction, putting those accused through hell.
~ Penny Mordaunt
The impetuous creature--a pirate--started forward, sprang away; she had to hold the rail to steady herself, for a pirate it was, reckless, unscrupulous, bearing down ruthlessly, circumventing dangerously, boldly snatching a passenger, or ignoring a passenger, squeezing eel-like and arrogant in between, and then rushing insolently all sails spread up Whitehall.
~ Virginia Woolf
She actually said with an emotion that she seldom let appear, Let me come with you, and he laughed. He meant yes or no - either perhaps. But it was not his meaning - it was the odd chuckle he gave, as if he had said, Throw yourself over the cliff if you like, I don't care. He turned on her cheek the heat of love, its horror, its cruelty, its unscrupulosity. It scorched her...
~ Virginia Woolf
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
~ Thomas Beecham
He (and anyone else who survived) learned to be as unscrupulous as the heroes in the pulp adventure magazines he'd read as a boy--sometimes, as unscrupulous as the villains.
~ Thomas M. Disch
Thieves sell to unscrupulous merchants who pay hundreds of dollars for phones - no questions asked - and then 'jailbreak' them. They unlock the units, erase their data, reprogram them, and put them up for resale.
~ Eric Schneiderman
One of the bedevilling factors of the Volunteer campaign was land hunger, a desire on the part of some unscrupulous people to profit from the disorders of the time.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
One of the most irritating features of Mr de Valera's behaviour at this time was, having used every device of a practised politician to gain his point, having shown himself relentless and unscrupulous in taking every advantage of generous opponents, he would adopt a tone of injured innocence when his shots failed, and assume the pose of a simple, sensitive man, too guileless and gentle for this rough world of politics.108
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Unfortunately, there will always be a few twisted megalomaniacs who will misuse and pervert the Divine Science which is intended to benefit mankind. This book is the antidote. It gives descriptions on how to protect yourself and how to handle unscrupulous people who misuse the inner teachings.
~ Choa Kok Sui
We should make sure that unscrupulous schools do not prey on uninformed students, leaving them with high debt and useless degrees.
~ Raghuram Rajan