Esther Dyson Quotes

The only way to get rid of corruption in high places is to get rid of the high places.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

Can we wonder that all has gone ill with us when our love of office survives in our very ruin?

Those guys [congressmen] lived on the basis of getting their little tidbits and their perks.

The system of government in Pakistan doesn't work. It's corrupt, and the people are tired of it.

Corruption is becoming more and more sophisticated in our societies. In the institutions we are talking about, the people who are corrupt are actually the ones who set up these institutions

Our government is corrupt.

Harvey Weinstein reveals how the most powerful men in this country have tendrils in to every kind of institution.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

Every public institution in the United States and most private ones are corrupt.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

What compelled me about the story of Chernobyl more than anything else was something very universal. Yes, Chernobyl happened because in many ways, the Soviet system was deeply corrupt and evil, but the Soviet system did not arrive to us from some other planet. It was devised by humans.

The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.

How is it that we can entrust the solutions for the problems that confront our country today to those who are complicit in their creation?

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

If you cloned JFK and Abraham Lincoln and made them president it wouldn't matter. Our system is just too corrupt and too broken. I think that science is corrupt and broken. I think health and nutrition. I think the economic systems, the international relations, the environment, everything, the engines of everything are broken.

It seems that the problem with government as an institution is uniformly bad, worldwide. It may be the ONLY thing that binds all nations together - the incompetence of all of their governments...The unions are the mafia, which is the CIA, which is the Catholic Church, which is the government, which is what's the difference? It's corrupt! It's the same guys pulling these strings, you know? One day he pulls the string and this lamp comes out, the next say he pulls the string and there's a missile coming out.

We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.