Harriet Martineau Quotes

One handful of money is stronger than two handfuls of truth.

The political elite has never told the truth.

When politics comes in the door, truth goes out the window.

Politics won't allow for the truth.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

When money talks, there are few interruptions.

Get up in one of our industrial centers today and say that two and two make four, and if there is any financial interest concerned in maintaining that two and two make five, the police will bash your head in.

The only people whose views count in the legislation that passes are those with big money. It doesn’t matter what the great majority of Americans want. Our Congress is bought.

A special prosecutor follows the money and follows the lies.

To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.

There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.

Trump did not spring out of nowhere, and I was struck by how prescient writers like Alexis de Tocqueville and George Orwell and Hannah Arendt were about how those in power get to define what the truth is.

Money greases the wheel of American democracy and corrupts it all.

There are so many families that are divided by Fox and Trump. I think a lot of people have been surprised by just how deep and how corrupt the roots are - how there's been collusion between Fox and Trump right in plain sight the whole time, and yet it's not often recognized.

As truth is Washington's worst enemy, everyone associated with the truth is Washington's enemy.

We are living in an age where it's difficult to know what the truth is and we have got politicians in charge who actually appear to not really care what the truth is.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant. 'I mean that you paid us more than if you'd been telling the truth,' he explained blandly, 'and enough more to make it all right.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.