#corrupt

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#consumerism #corruption #soul

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#any #beast #boils #corruption #dante

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor. ↗

— William Pitt

#corrupts #possessor #power corrupts #unlimited #unlimited power

This is what happened to me when I received the governorship. The corrupt previous governor didn't do the handover. We received the Miranda governorship completely dismantled. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#corrupt #dismantled #governor #happened #i

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#corruption #countries #elites #framework #operate

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#come #communism #corruption #country #disrupted

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#money #now #politics #pretty #right