#corruption

The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. ↗

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor. ↗

#oppression #power #reformers #social-justice #life

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#self-esteem #love

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil. ↗

— Munia Khan

#country #natives #soil #motivational

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#music #nonfiction #politics #music

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#capitalism #corruption #government #history #oppression

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?] ↗

— Anne Bishop

#honor #law #honor

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#media-corruption #rally-to-restore-insanity #media

Political corruption, social greed, and Americanized quasi-socialism can ruin even the most wonderful places. California proved that. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#capitalism #corruption #greed #politics #politics-of-the-united-states

There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.  ↗