#unscrupulous

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

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#does #due #intellect #pay #reverence

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#also #day #deal #emperors #everywhere

The freedom to connect to the world anywhere at anytime brings with it the threat of unscrupulous predators and criminals who mask their activities with the anonymity the Internet provides to its users. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

#anonymity #anytime #anywhere #brings #connect

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#come #composing #formula #i #myself