Michelle Paver Quotes

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

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.

Power without responsibility, the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

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

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

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.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

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.

dangerous demagogue corrupt pervert, prostitute, debauch cursed.

The diplomat holds all acts honorable which bring him success, all things are righteous which serve his ends. If cheating is necessary, he will cheat; if lying is useful, he will lie; if bribery helps, he will bribe; if murder serves, he will order murder; if burglary, seduction, arson or forgery brings success nearer, all and each of these will be done.

What the proprietorship of these papers is aiming at is power, and power without responsibility—the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.

Corruption is a punitive tax on those who can least afford it.

Morally, as a class, cowboys are foulmouthed, blasphemous, drunken, lecherous, utterly corrupt. Usually harmless on the plains when sober, they are dreaded in towns, for then liquor has an ascendancy over them.

The power structure does what they want, when they want; then they try to find reasons to justify it

… 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

These Yankee politicians are the lowest race of thieves in existence.

As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

Powerful people doing bad things LIKE cynical, despairing citizens.

self-interest usually brings injustice with it.