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Quotes About Unscrupulous

Most important perhaps, in most of these cases there were enormous benefits from holding power. These benefits both attracted the most unscrupulous men, such as Stevens, who wished to monopolize this power, and brought the worst out of them once they were in power. There was nothing to break the vicious circle. N
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
There is no door to God through dope; that is a lie peddled by the unscrupulous.
~ Philip K. Dick
an' it's the difference between good and evil. Evil can be unscrupulous, and good can't. Evil has nothing to stop it doing what it wants, while good has one hand tied behind its back. To do the things it needs to do to win, it'd have to become evil to do 'em.
~ Philip Pullman
We're ruthless bastards and we always play dirty.
~ James Alan Gardner
He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard with a bright future in politics.
~ John Grisham
Here come the characters who comprise the movie vermin, the Hollywood scum, the film slime—the aforementioned "unscrupulous cowards of mediocrity." Fortunately, they are minor characters, yet so distasteful that their introduction has been delayed as long as possible.
~ John Irving
The largest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity, is no longer socialism. It is, instead, the ambitious, arrogant, unscrupulous ideology of environmentalism.
~ Vaclav Klaus
Rather, the best clue is, of all things, the pity play. The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy. I first learned this when
~ Martha Stout
In times of revolution there is not a man who does not feel himself capable of anything.He seizes the moment. He starts with a great vigour, but how often are his actions foolhardy or ill-considered...and how often are they unscrupulous ?
~ Unknown
Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.
~ Unknown