A Quote by Erica Jong

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

Erica Jong

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Concern Fascist First Last Morality Public Refuge Scoundrel

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Erica Jong
American - Novelist
Born: March 26, 1942

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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Charles P. Kindleberger

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

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Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

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Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.

Bob Dylan

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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.

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I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

George Galloway

When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform.

Roscoe Conkling

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Roger Scruton

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.

Bob Dylan

Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.

Samuel Johnson

If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, it is not merely because evil deeds may be performed in the name of patriotism, but because patriotic fervor can obliterate moral distinctions altogether.