Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
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Scum Of The Earth
12 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"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"
W. Somerset Maugham
Novelist, Playwright
"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."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies."
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