Degrees Quote by Roland Barthes

He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must…

— Alphonsus Liguori

“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch…

— Arthur Phillips

“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.”

— Agatha Christie

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself…

— David Hume

Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive;…

— Bernard de Mandeville

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to…

— James A. Garfield

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

— Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“You know what your problem is? You got too many scruples. One or two is okay, but you get too many of them, and…

— Janet Evanovich

We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to…

— Nicolas Sarkozy

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and…

— Elaine Dundy

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again…

— Galileo Galilei

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr