Michael J. Knowles Quotes

I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.

The age of virtuous politics is past.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.

If you’ve ever been in politics, I don’t want to vote for you.

Everywhere we are surrounded by dogs and sorcerers and whores and the Godless and all who love lies and commit them.

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters.

All you got to do is look around. This country's getting worse and worse and more and more immoral, and we're rotting from within.

If you hang around politics long enough, you tend to get disappointed by people.

'House Of Cards' with Kevin Spacey - I love how it portrays humans in power as just like the rest of us - but even worse.

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.

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.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Politics is a waste of time.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

I believe people can change, but only for the worse

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.

The rottenness of the matter which is the foundation of everything!

Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.