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Joris-Karl Huysmans
“I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that the human creature is born selfish, abusive, vile. Just look around you and see. Society cynical and ferocious, the humble heckled and pillaged by the rich traffickers in necessities. Everywhere the triumph of the mediocre and unscrupulous, everywhere the apotheosis of crooked politics and finance. And you think you can make any progress against a stream like that? No, man has never changed. His soul was corrupt in the days of Genesis and is not less rotten at present. Only the form of his sins varies. Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.”
― Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas
tags: change, corrupt, corruption, crooked, cynical, cynicism, finance, humble, hypocrisy, man, mankind, mediocre, mediocrity, perfectibility, perfectible, pillage, placidity, politics, progress, rotten, selfish, selfishness, sin, sins, society, soul, triumph, unscrupulous, utopia, utopian, vice, vices, vile
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Edith Wharton
“...when "such things happened" it was undoubtedly foolish of the man, but somehow always criminal of the woman. All the elderly ladies whom Archer knew regarded any woman who loved imprudently as necessarily unscrupulous and designing, and mere simple-minded man as powerless in her clutches. The only thing to do was to persuade him, as early as possible, to marry a nice girl, and then trust her to look after him.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
tags: criminal, designing, nice-girl, unscrupulous
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“even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves”
― Noah Berlatsky
tags: cults, human-desire, love, manipulation, manipulative, meaningfulness, search-for-meaning, unscrupulous
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“In my experience, insecure people constantly need to show that they are superior to others, whether they are or not, and they will often stoop to unscrupulous tactics to achieve this, the most common being to persistently mock, criticize, and put others down, the objective being to lower the status of the other person in the eyes of others, thus easing their own feelings of insecurity, and inadequacy. Secure people, on the other hand, do not have this need.”
― Robert Black, Laowai
tags: criticize, insecure, insecure-people, insecurity, insecurity-quotes, mock, put-downs, secure-people, unscrupulous
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Nancy Mitford
“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, Love in a Cold Climate and Other Novels
tags: charm, unscrupulous
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
tags: angelic, aphorism, aphorisms, aphorist, aphorists, atheism, atheist, atheists, bad, base, believer, believers, bible, blameless, chaplain, chaplains, church, churches, churchman, churchmen, clergyman, clergymen, cleric, clerics, congregation, congregations, corrupt, criminal, crooked, curate, curates, debased, debauched, decent, degenerate, depraved, dishonest, dishonorable, disreputable, dissolute, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, ethical, evil, foul, funny, godless, good, high-minded, hilarious, honest, honorable, humor, humorous, humour, image, imam, imams, immoral, impress, impression, impure, iniquitous, irreproachable, joke, jokes, law-abiding, lewd, licentious, loose, lowdown, man-of-the-cloth, men-of-the-cloth, minister, ministers, miscreant, moral, morally-wrong, nefarious, noble, nonbeliever, nonbelievers, obscene, padre, padres, pagan, parson, parsons, pastor, pastors, persona, perverse, perverted, preacher, preachers, priest, priests, principled, promiscuous, pure, quotations, quotes, rector, rectors, reprobate, reverend, reverends, righteous, saintly, satire, shady, shameless, sinful, sleazy, synagogue, synagogues, unchaste, unconscionable, unethical, unprincipled, unscrupulous, unvirtuous, upright, upstanding, vicar, vicars, vile, villainous, virtuous, wanton, wicked, wish, wrongful
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Graham Greene
“Victims?’ he asked. ‘Don’t be melodramatic, Rollo. Look down there,’ he went on, pointing through the window at the people moving like black flies at the base of the Wheel. ‘Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving – for ever? If I said you can have twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stops, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money – without hesitation? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax.’ He gave his conspiratorial smile. ‘It’s the only way to save nowadays.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man and The Fallen Idol
tags: crime, income-tax, murderer, the-third-man, unscrupulous, victims
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Helen Pluckrose
“Therefore, everything the marginalized individual interprets as racism is considered racism by default—an episteme that encourages confirmation bias and leaves wide open the door to the unscrupulous.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
tags: confirmation-bias, racism, unscrupulous
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“They say the people; are the country
But to run the country, the people are too lazy
They say the people; are the country
But to run the country, the people are too lazy
So they elect any unqualified clown as presidents
And put them in charge of the countries' governments.”
― Ricardo Derose
tags: blamethepeople, crooks, deroseentertainmentllc, government, notrepresentingthepeople, noworkingforthegreatergood, ricardoderosepoetries, ricardoderosequotes, unscrupulous, wethepeople
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“They say the people; are the country
But to run the country, the people are too lazy
They say the people; are the country
But to run the country, the people are too lazy
So they elect any unscrupulous crooks as presidents
And put them in charge of the countries' governments.”
― Ricardo Derose
tags: blamethepeople, crooks, deroseentertainmentllc, government, notrepresentingthepeople, noworkingforthegreatergood, ricardoderosepoetries, ricardoderosequotes, unscrupulous, wethepeople
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“To get views, you'll keep on going even though you know it's wrong; you choose unscrupulous methods even when you know the consequences. Despite knowing full well the pain your actions will bring to others, you have no qualms about exploiting it for attention because you're not the one getting hurt.”
― Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1
tags: exploit, influencer, social-media, streaming, unscrupulous, user, views
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Torres and Firsht
“I believe that people who take unscrupulous shortcuts in the pursuit of their ideals end up destroying lives, including their own.”
― Torres and Firsht, Tell Me Your Plans: A gripping novel of love, ambition, and power in a high-stakes world
tags: consequences-of-our-actions, moral-choices, shortcut-to-success, unscrupulous
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Frank Sonnenberg
“Nickel-and-diming people can cost you a pretty penny.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Values to Live By: Know What Matters Most and Let It Be Your Guide
tags: cost-of-doing-business, nickel-and-dimed, pennywise, short-sighted, short-sightedness, small-mindedness, unscrupulous
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