Albert Einstein Quotes

Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

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

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

I think it's very easy to get corrupted.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

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.

… they seem to be such as would not swear, whore, nor be drunk, but they would lie, cozen and deceive.

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

The first sign of corruption in a society ... is that the ends justify the means.

We suppose mankind more honest than they are.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

Evil will destroy itself.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.