What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. [Lat. , Qui semel a veritate deflexit, hic non majore religione ad perjurium quam ad mendacium perduci consuevit. ]
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.
