Henry Ireton Quotes

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature, and that power whether vested in many or few is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

Politics ruins the character.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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.

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

Ambition is the mother of hypocrisy and prefers to skulk in corners and dark places. It cannot endure the light of day. It is an unclean vice wallowing in the depths, always hidden, but with ever an eye to advancement.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

… the most corrupt of all corrupt men.

Hypocrisy is a fearful evil, and every thing which has a tendency to produce it should be avoided.

The moral state of society was most terrible. We stole from ourselves, took and gave bribes, lied in the reports, in newspapers, from high podiums. And all of this from top to bottom; from bottom to top.

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

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Power is every stealing from the many to the few.

Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.