Scandal Quotes - page 4

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals. (Kenneth Rexroth)
It is time, we repeat, that this monstrous slumber of men's consciences should end. It must not be, after that fearful scandal, the triumph of crime, that a scandal still more fearful should be presented to mankind: the indifference of the civilized world. View quote
Victor Hugo
What a scandal to hear nature deprecated in comparison to Greek statues by one who knows neither one nor the other without acknowledging that the smallest part of Nature confounds and amazes those who know most. What statue or cast of it might there be that is not copied from divine nature? View quote
Francisco Goya
President Poroshenko and his regime enjoy impunity and plan provocations like the one that occurred at the entrance to the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea. Literally a day after this blatant provocation, the text of the order...was found on one of the boats... It said that the boats should covertly, without requesting authorisation of the Russian authorities...Why?...There may only be one answer: they wanted to provoke a scandal. View quote
Sergey Lavrov
During the Calciopoli scandal: "A true gentleman never leaves his lady." View quote
Alessandro Del Piero
The first requisite of a gentleman is to be true, brave and noble, and to be therefore a rebuke and scandal to venal and vulgar souls. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. View quote
Benjamin Rush
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. View quote
Molière
Longevity conquers scandal every time. View quote
Shelby Foote
Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role. View quote
Paul Weyrich
Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House. (Mark Foley)
Those who dumb down the news, trivialize the news with in-studio shouting matches passing for debate, those who tart up the news with celebrity gossip, scandal and sensationalism are playing right into the hands of those that stand to gain the most from the news being seen as irrelevant and trivial and no more or less worth your attention than the next episode of 'American Idol.' [...] I worry that if it becomes no more than a reality show, something that could be scripted and rigged behind the scenes without anyone really getting upset about it, that our freedom of the press will become another one of those constitutionally granted rights that can be watered down and eventually taken away from us. View quote
Dan Rather
[The Abu Ghraib prison scandal is] the key reason, the sole reason, that I was forced to retire. I was essentially not offered another position in either a three-star or four-star command. View quote
Ricardo Sanchez
Look at you; you're on The New Democracy, considered the most brilliant weekly in the country, read by the men who do things and all that. What's your business? Why, to be as clever, as interesting, and as brilliantly cynical as possible about every man, doctrine, book, or policy that is assigned you to deal with. The more strong lights, the more spiritual scandal you can throw on the matter, the more money they pay you, the more the people buy the issue. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. View quote
Edward Abbey
Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. View quote
Josh Billings
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. View quote
William Wycherley
It's easy to mock video gamers as dorky loners in yellowing underpants. Indeed, in previous columns, I've done it myself. Occasionally at length. But, the more you learn about the latest scandal in the games industry, the more you start to sympathise with the frustrated male stereotype. Because an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners, abetted by achingly politically correct American tech bloggers, are terrorising the entire community – lying, bullying and manipulating their way around the internet for profit and attention. View quote
Milo Yiannopoulos
Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal. View quote
Timothy D. Snyder
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. View quote
Phyllis McGinley
And I go to my room and stretch out my arms to the West-that it is far away [from here], that I will someday return. Outside those painful sensations-it is horrible to be before these people and their lives. Service and family troubles -a hard beginning, pay raise, promotion - sweet dreams, scandal - daily bread, [This is a figurative reference to Our Lord's Prayer, "give us this day our daily bread.."] and their happiness reminds me sweetly, of those who buy "for the people," and whose food you wouldn't put in your mouth. I think of Munich and of my health. All that is here is suffering and this horror of beauty and this horrible life and this overbearing literature, and the complete superfluousness of art. (Marianne von Werefkin)
There are so many misunderstandings in life. I once caused a scandal by saying I lived with two men [...] I didn't mean it in a sexual sense [...] I was just too dirty to clean my act up. View quote
Charlotte Rampling
Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease. View quote
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal. View quote
Andie MacDowell
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. View quote
Anna Brownell Jameson