#scoundrel

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#all-around #dissent #duty #matter #often

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#any #confession #great #heart #i

If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#him #idiot #kill #opponent #scoundrel

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

#greatest #remains #revolutions #scoundrels

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 #i #i think #looked #many

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#creep #enough #flesh #i #know

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

— Neal Boortz

#religion #scoundrels

A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#objection #refuge #scoundrel #technical

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#before #clock #going #scoundrel #thinks

Every man over forty is a scoundrel. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#every #every man #forty #man #over