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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!

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Fool , Worship

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , War , Liberty

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Persons , Feelings

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.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Names , Fool

Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Self , Existence

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.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Men , Giving

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Firsts , Religious

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Men , Believe

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Men , Life

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.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Men , Believe

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

Topic(s): Scoundrels , War , Matter

Best quotes by Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Ends , Dupes

One of the great attractions of patriotism

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Attraction , Patriotic

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Political , Lasts

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Littles , Life

Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Moral , Violence

I’ve always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , People , Looks

The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that person’s liberty. Are you free?

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Firsts , Persons

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

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Two , Practice

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Human Condition , Sociable

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Millions , Deserve

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Lasts , Politics

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Shows , Earth

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

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Political , Politics

Best quotes by Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Ifs , Would Be

PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one’s ‘country’; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred ‘enemy’ corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Firsts , Country

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Lying

I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Kind , Dog

So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take much to make him aggressive. A fool must therefore be treated more cautiously than a scoundrel.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Doe , Facts

What every Englishman thinks about patriotism, the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Thinking , Lasts

The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Topic(s): Scoundrels , Firsts , Lasts

It didn’t make any more sense to me then than it does now, how life can pile troubles up on a man what don’t deserve them, while letting some of the biggest jackasses and scoundrels alive waltz their way through long, untroubled existences.