patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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.

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

Any man over forty is a scoundrel.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

These are the ones who escape
after the last hurt is turned inward;
they are the most dangerous ones.

"I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time."

Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

When, in a free society, the press is criticized for negativity, that almost always means it has dared to question the policies of the party in power. 'Patriotism,' Samuel Johnson said, 'is the last refuge of a scoundrel.' He could have been speaking of those who use it to shield themselves from dissent.

La violenza è l'ultimo rifugio degli incapaci.