Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Politics ruins the character.

There are no honorable rulers.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Ethics and power are separate.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence

Corruption is an endemic evil—a cultural problem, not only for Mexico but for all Latin America

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel!

The government is run by men who have the rudder of State in their hands and cushions of state beneath their High and Mighty Behinds.

Some leaders, of course, have also committed crimes, and they have blood on their hands. Or they have secret accounts with stolen money. And so if they leave, people will come after them. So they just don’t leave. Like in Sudan: if you leave, you end up at the International Criminal Court. Staying in power is a form of insurance policy against the long arm of the law.

Politics is so corrupt that even the dishonest people get fucked.

when greed and fear are linked to power, you have a dangerous mix. We see that in political life. In part of the world, the mix of greed and fear means that those who get power become reluctant to give it back. One of the many things I like and admire in our democracies are the norms that make our leaders hand over power when voters tell them to

Most people can bear adversity; but if you wish to know what a man really is give him power.|

One of the things that is so important, critical I think, in reading not just the founders but thousands of years as you put it, that discussion about corruption, is that you can't talk about the problem of corruption without talking about human nature.

There are more crime films about the corruption of power because our society has similar problems. It would be great for me as an actor to work on an 'Inside Men' sequel, but I hope it never gets made. Because it would mean the corruption is still there.

There can be no compromise regarding corruption.

Politics has become beyond acceptable when it comes to humanity. People are just frozen in falsehood.

Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.

Donald Trump is many things - a tantrum-throwing man-child and a wannabe strongman pining for his very own banana republic among them - but perhaps most of all he is a giant, melon-colored distraction from what is happening to our country under his watch.

Things such as corruption is a big thing in the ANC.

Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.

Unfortunately, the former rulers during the era of dictatorship indulged in massive corruption in Punjab, and the hard-earned money of the poor nation was mercilessly looted.