A Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

In government, the scum rises to the top.

Friedrich August von Hayek

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Government Rises Scum Top

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Friedrich August von Hayek
Austrian - Economist
May 8, 1899 - March 23, 1992

Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, "in government, the scum rises to the top".

Walter E. Williams

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

David Gemmell

Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

Tom Robbins

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.

John Dryden

The Moroccan scum in Holland... once again not all are scum... but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who make the streets unsafe, mostly young people... and that should change.

Geert Wilders

Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

Amy Tan

Not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe.

Geert Wilders

I think the strangest thing probably is when I went to Japan, and I don't know what the hell I was eating, but there was this one thing that seemed to be in a lot of soups and things there - I always called it pond scum. It looked exactly like the green stuff that floats on top of a pond. I would say, "Oh my God, this has pond scum in it!" I would eat it, to be polite, because we were usually with Japanese people and I didn't want to gag or spit it out or anything. And I still don't know what it was.

Cassandra Peterson

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Rumi

If you train, you work hard, you're actually 110-percent dedicated, you're doing it for all the right reasons, you're probably gonna end up on the top. You know the cream always rises to the top.