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• He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

  William Blake

  Art, Hypocrite, Politics

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

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• Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

  Lillian Hellman

  Truth, Honesty, Doe

  Scoundrel Time (1976)

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• In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

  Roger Scruton

  Firsts, Moral, Argument

  Roger Scruton (2012). “Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey”, p.42, A&C Black

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• I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  George Galloway

  Men, Patriotism, Drs

  "Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.

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• I'd never painted anything before. I was quite content to take other people's work since I didn't care anyway about the subject matter. I approached subject matter as a scoundrel. I had nothing to say about it whatsoever. I only wanted to make these exciting paintings.

  Tom Wesselmann

  People, Care, Matter

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• A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

  Jose Marti

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• He's a scoundrel, young Brad Pitt, who led me, his elderly colleague, astray more than once.

  Peter O'Toole

  Elderly, Brad, Young

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• The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Live Life, Mean, Years

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• Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

  Osamu Dazai

  Beautiful, Sweet, Long

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• Fahlberg is a scoundrel. It nauseates me to hear my name mentioned in the same breath with him.

  Ira Remsen

  Names, Breaths

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• You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Lying, Dark, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Idiot

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• It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ungrateful People, Tragedy, Favors

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• It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement.

  Nelson Rodrigues

  Pressure, Collectives, Hard

  "Flor de Obsessão: as 1000 melhores frases de Nelson Rodrigues" by Companhia das Letras, (p. 34), 1992.

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• An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Men, Tyrants

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

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• I write, and I feel how the correct and precise use of words is sometimes like a remedy to an illness. Like a contraption for purifying the air, I breathe in and exhale the murkiness and manipulations of linguistic scoundrels and language rapists of all shades and colors. I write and I feel how the tenderness and intimacy I maintain with language, with its different layers, its eroticism and humor and soul, give me back the person I used to be, me, before my self became nationalized and confiscated by the conflict, by governments and armies, by despair and tragedy.

  David Grossman

  Writing, Army, Government

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• I was instructed long ago by a wise editor, "If you understand something you can explain it so that almost anyone can understand it. If you don't, you won't be able to understand your own explanation." That is why 90% of academic film theory is bullshit. Jargon is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Roger Ebert

  Wise, Long Ago, Editors

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010”, p.583, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

  Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

  Dupes, Ends

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• Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ass, Shows

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.55, 谷月社

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• I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Government, People, Wish

  "On the Admissibility of Capital Punishment". "Notebooks and Diaries". Book by Franz Grillparzer, 1836.

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• Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

  Stendhal

  Feet, Miserable, Life Is

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• I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

  El Greco

  Art, Suffering, Praise

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• If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Patriotic, Names, Evil

  Ralph Barton Perry (1951). “The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis”

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• Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Practice, Two, Fool

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.711, Penguin

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