Riley Keough Quotes

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once.

As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

Most of the great results of history are brought about by discreditable means.

Is there any way we can screw him?

The three learned professions live by roguery on the three parts of a man. The doctor mauls our bodies; the parson starves our souls, but the lawyer must be the adroitest knave, for he has to ensnare our minds.

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

I hated how Sam Rothstein got manipulated by Sharon Stone's character in 'Casino.' I mean, I just hate how he gets manipulated; that just gets ridiculous to me. I know it's historic, but I hated that.

When you're in a relationship with a photographer, and they start abusing that relationship and being like, 'I want you to do this, and I want you to do that,' it makes you go, 'No.' I didn't want to work all the time.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It's entertainment at the cost of human lives.