It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the Armenians living in Turkey. . . An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to either age or sex nor to conscientious scruples.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted.
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
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.
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. . . . It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay aside the doubt; and if he has not hitherto done so, he must confess it, at least, as it is before God. But the scrupulous, who have doubts about everything, must follow another rule: they must obey their confessor. When he tells them to conquer their doubts, and to act against scruples, they should obey with exactness; otherwise they will render themselves unable and unfit to perform any spiritual exercise.
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.