Scoundrels Quotes - Page 2

• In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

  Georges Danton

  Revolution, Authority, Remains

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• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Boies Penrose

  Office, Political, Patriotism

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• A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Political, Groups, Prejudice

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• Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

  Michael Crichton

  Safety, Patriotism, Lasts

  Michael Crichton (2000). “Timeline”

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• Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

  Michael Crichton

  Literature, Matter, Way

  "Consensus Science and the Peer Review" by Jorge R. Barrio, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. April 28, 2009.

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• To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American.

  Steve Martin

  Caught, Another Woman

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• Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Political, Needs

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• I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Eye, Thinking, Rope

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• To conquer demons, first conquer your mind. When the mind is subdued, demons withdraw obediently. To control knaves, first control your own mood. When your mood is balanced, scoundrels cannot get at you.

  Zicheng Hong

  Mind, Taoism, Firsts

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• Force always attracts men of low morality.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• Patriotism is the last refuge of the sculptor.

  William Plomer

  Patriotic, Patriotism, Lasts

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• He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Action, Minutes

  Jerusalem ch. 3, plate 55, l. 60 (1815)

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• Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotic, Names, Patriotism

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Hands, Voice

  Journal, 10 Dec. 1824

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• One of the great attractions of patriotism

  Aldous Huxley

  Cheating, Patriotic, Bully

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Eyeless In Gaza”, p.185, Random House

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• Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.10, Broadway Books

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• Any number of scoundrels, having money enough to start with, can establish themselves as a 'government'; because, with money, they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort more money; and also compel general obedience to their will.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Numbers, Soldier

  Lysander Spooner (1973). “No Treason and a Letter to Thomas F. Bayard”

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• There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

  Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

  Names, Barbarians, Fool

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• No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.

  John L. Lewis

  Play, Political, Hats

  1937 Address, 3 Sep. Recalled on his death 11 Jun 1969.

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• Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Angel, Wicked, Lap

  Sabrina Jeffries (2015). “The Truth About Lord Stoneville”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.

  Julian Assange

  Money, Men, Years

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• More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.

  Adolf Hitler

  Taken, Destiny, Battle

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

  Neal Boortz

  Refuge

  "Free talk with Neal Boortz". Interview with Bill Steigerwald, triblive.com. March 17, 2007.

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• I've always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you've got scoundrels in office, you vote 'em out.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Office, Ems, Way

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• Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

  William Blake

  Hypocrite, Hypocrisy, Attention

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