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Quotations
 | Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 137 likes |
 | A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 82 likes |
 | Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 21 likes |
 | This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 19 likes |
 | Force always attracts men of low morality. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 18 likes |
 | Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 18 likes |
 | Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 15 likes |
 | And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. — Lord Acton, 1834-1902, English historian 14 likes |
 | Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 11 likes |
 | The Thief is sorry he is to be hanged, but not that he is a Thief. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 11 likes |
 | Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 10 likes |
 | Every man over forty is a scoundrel. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 10 likes |
| Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 9 likes |
 | The worst men often give the best advice. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 8 likes |
 | All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 8 likes |
| All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 7 likes |
 | He's a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] (on Anastasio Somoza García, president of Nicaragua) 7 likes |
 | A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 6 likes |
 | The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry VI 6 likes |
| Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 5 likes |
 | I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to villains is to pour water into the sea. — Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish writer 3 likes |
 | It’s strange that some people commit crimes when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — George Courteline, 1858-1929, French writer 2 likes |
 | Give an inch, he'll take an ell. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 1 likes |
 | The best of them were the kind of people you’d expect to drive a beer truck. They had no class. The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
 | If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 1 likes |
 | Coming out of some mouths, the truth itself smells bad. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 1 likes |
 | A man can smile and smile and be a villain. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | The history of the 9 Thermidor is not long: a few scoundrels killed a few scoundrels. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher (27 July 1794 – Robespierre and his supporters were arrested and guillotined) 1 likes |
| 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, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher 1 likes |
| When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 1 likes |
 | He struggled with himself, too. I saw it – I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
 | There is someone worse than the hangman. It is his assistant. — Comte de Mirabeau, 1749-1791, main figure of the French Revolution 1 likes |
 | Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell. — Martin Luther, 1483-1546, German theologian, protagonist of Reformation 1 likes |
 | The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 1 likes |
 | People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 1 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear, And he shows them pearly white Just a jack-knife has Macheath dear And he keeps it out of sight. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 8 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. — Howard Scott, 1890-1970, American engineer 12 likes |
 | I prefer to vote for those crooks in power than for those who will become crooks once they gain power. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 3 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Thief knows thief and wolf knows wolf. Έγνω δε φωρ τε φώρα και λύκος λύκον. 35 likes |
 | It’s a shame to the gods that bad men prosper. Θεών όνειδος τους κακούς ευδαιμονείν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 11 likes |
| The bad guys dare it all. Πάντα κακοί τολμώσι. 7 likes |
 | We should guard against bad men lest they seize the opportunity. Τον φαύλον παραφυλάττειν δει, μη καιρού λάβηται. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
Proverbs
 | The big thieves hang the little ones. — Czech proverb 5 likes |
 | There's honour among thieves. 3 likes |
