Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Quotes

The loggers are more powerful than we are …. There is bribery everywhere.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

… a brutality, cunning and greed for power normally met only in the conclaves of Mafia capi

… the tools of despotism and corruption

… the polluted harpies that, under the pretense of governing this city, are feeding day and night on its quivering vitals. They are a lying, perjured, rum-soaked and libidinous lot

The chief of these [problems governing Korea] arise from the character of the Koreans. Many of them are crooked. They want "squeeze" from the Japanese and their own people. They are lazy.

.... the forces of greed

With shame be it spoken: by her fall, the Church's liberties have been sacrificed for the sake of temporal advantages. The road to her ruin lay through the sinuous paths of riches: she has been prostituted in the streets to princes; she has conceived iniquity and will bring forth oppression to the undeserving.

To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

There's very little different between the way the government operates in America and the way criminals do.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Money is evil.

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.

Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism.

When money comes into play then that's all it's about wanting money, who's making the most who can get the most, me, me me... and in the end it screws up the person and the sport.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.