A Quote by Franz Kafka

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka
German - Novelist
July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

Scoundrels [...] simply don't die. The ones who die are always the gentle, sweet, and beautiful people. [...] Scoundrels live a long time. The beautiful die young.

Osamu Dazai

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

H. L. Mencken

The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Ayn Rand

Angel? Angels didn't sit on the lap of wicked scoundrels-not unless they were the fallen kind.

Sabrina Jeffries

Scoundrels are always sociable.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Bertrand Russell

We begin as dupes and end as scoundrels.

Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulieres

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

Dean Burk

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

Neal Boortz

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Georges Jacques Danton

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

Steve Martin

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

Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

More than once I was tormented by the thought that if Providence had put me in the place of the incapable of criminal incompetents or scoundrels in our propaganda service, our battle with Destiny would have taken a different turn.