#corruption

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#corruption #duty #youth

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#improvement #love #peace #understanding #unity

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco) ↗

— Iain Pears

#corruption #devil #religion #beauty

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. ↗

— Stephen King

#corruption #evil #fairytale #horror #beauty

You can not change the past but you can change the future. ↗

— Immortal Technique

#inspiration #change

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#death #life #new-orleans #nola #death

Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it "Communism," which in Chinese translation means "sharing property." Pg. 390 ↗

— Nien Cheng

#communism #corruption #looting #mao #death

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

— Derrick A. Bell

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

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#boswell #corrupt #corruption #freedom #johnson