#corruption

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

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. ↗

— Paul Klee

#age #also #artistic #children #corruption

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗

— Tacitus

#laws #must #numerous #state #very

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. ↗

— Bess Myerson

#corruption #crime #frequently #indifference #our

What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them. ↗

— Jeff Sharlet

#bribery #government #legality #political-corruption #united-states

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass. ↗

— David Gemmell

#emotion #hate #love #love

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares. ↗

— Max Brooks

#manipulation #pharmaceutical-industry #scares #death

O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#fight #inspirational #inspirational