Scum Quotes

• Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Political, Layers

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• The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Eye

  "Reality on the Rocks" ("Beyond Our Ken", 1995), (1995– ).

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• Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

  Walter E. Williams

  Powerful, Men, Thinking

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• America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Country, Freedom, America

  Speech on September 26, 1891. "Peter Kropotkin: From Prince to Rebel". Book by George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović, p. 269, 1990.

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• When you associate with scum, you become scum.

  Kathy Wakile

  Associates

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• n the world, those who break the rules are scum, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum.

  Masashi Kishimoto

  World, Break, Abandon

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• Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

  Robert De Niro

  Real, Rain, Streets

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• Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Temptation

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Life Is Like

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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• The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

  Mary Astell

  People, Treats, Insolence

  Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

  Lily Tomlin

  Kings, Queens, Phones

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• Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hope, Courage, Mud

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• Take that, you scum-sucking snipes. Eat your words and your cruelty. May you drown in it and die. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  May, Cruelty, Dies

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• I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.

  R. Lee Ermey

  Bags, Canada, Share

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.

  Valerie Solanas

  Sex, Government, Feminist

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 1, 1967.

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• The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.

  Valerie Solanas

  Males, Female, Genes

  The S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

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• Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Scum Of The Earth, Waterloo

  Quoted in Philip Henry Stanhope, Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1888) (entry for 4 Nov. 1831)

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• Her name badge read: Hello! My name is DIE, DEMIGOD SCUM!

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Hello, Demigods

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.

  Simon Jordan

  Sports, Football, Jobs

  "Rommedahl rewards Charlton's patience" by Jon Brodkin, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2004.

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• This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

  Rumi

  Courage, Discipline, Gold

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught.

  Harold Pinter

  Cities, People, Heaven

  Harold Pinter (1999). “The Dwarfs: And Nine Revue Sketches”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.

  Alan Moore

  Hands, Scum Of The Earth, Wish

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• The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

  Valerie Solanas

  Abortion, Males, Female

  The S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

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• A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at the same time interacting with each other mentally and emotionally - free spirits in free relation to each other - and co-operating with each other to achieve common ends. Traditionalists say the basic unit of "society" is the family; "hippies" say the tribe; noone says the individual.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Hippie, Community

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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