Quotes of Rabble - somelinesforyou

“ The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, "culture." It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing "art" to defend their collapsing culture. ”

- George Grosz

“ You have dished me up, like a savoury omelette, to gratify the appetite of the reading rabble for gossip. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. ”

- Duke of Wellington

“ She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire. ”

- Bible

“ We're talking scum here. Air should be illegal if they breathe it. ”

- Unknown

“ A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils. ”

- John Dryden

“ The rich are the scum of the earth in every country. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum. ”

- J. W. Schopf

“ I'm a proud member of the rabble. ”

- Benjamin Netanyahu

“ I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. ”

- Epicurus

“ I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me. ”

- Horace

“ I am a member of the rabble in good standing. ”

- Westbrook Pegler

“ Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government. ”

- Georg Hegel

“ Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them. ”

- Benedict Arnold
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