Scum Of The Earth Quotes

• The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

  Duke of Wellington

  History, Soldier, Fine

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• Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.

  Craig Reucassel

  Running, Fighting, Organization

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• The French system of conscription brings together a fair sample of all classes; ours is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. It is only wonderful that we should be able to make so much out of them afterwards.

  Duke of Wellington

  Class, Together, Able

  Speaking about soldiers in the British Army, November 04, 1813.

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• The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Rich, Earth

  'The Flying Inn' (1914) ch. 15

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

  Duke of Wellington

  Army, Waterloo, Mere

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

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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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• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Fighting, Moral

  Simon Cottee, Thomas Cushman, Christopher Hitchens (2008). “Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left”, p.5064, NYU Press

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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, Wish, Throat

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• We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Needs, Minorities

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• I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Moral, Stranger

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• I shall not rest until Leeds United are kicked out of the football league. Their fans are the scum of the earth, absolute animals and a disgrace. I will do everything in my power to make sure this happens.

  Ken Bates

  Football, Animal, League

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• Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Dog, Draining, Earth

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Saint, May, Emergencies

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.26, Penguin

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