Frederick William Robertson Quotes

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

Those who have no sense of right, reason or religion, have a natural propensity to make use of their strength to the destruction of such as are weaker than they.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

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

... the keynote of government is injustice.

It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.

I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely

It is necessary to put down the horrible abuses. These abuses must end or I will retire from the Congo. I will not allow myself to be spattered with blood or mud; it is necessary that these villainies cease.

There were also very great robberies and murder of our principal men. This was done in pretense indeed for the public welfare, but in reality for the hopes of gain to themselves

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

[A] representative of... a government whose Three Graces are Tyranny, Rapacity, Blood.

Right here in this heart and home and fountain-head of law--in this great factory where are forged those rules that create good order and compel virtue and honesty in the other communities of the land, rascality achieves its highest perfection. Here rewards are conferred for conniving at dishonesty, but never for exposing it

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the grace of the Eternal God, will rout you out.

I am accused of using hard language. I admit the charge. I have not been able to find a soft word to describe villainy or to identify the perpetrator of it. The man who makes a chattel of his brother - what is he? The man who keeps back the hire of his laborers by fraud - what is he?

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

...and for that they were rich,/And robbed the poor; and for that they were strong,/And scourged the weak; and for that they made laws/Which turned the sweat of labor's brow to blood! - /For these their sins the nations cast them out.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal, disgusting, mean, low-lived fellow I met, was allowed by our laws to become absolute despot of as many men, women and children, as he could cheat, steal, or gamble money enough to buy,-when I have seen such men in actual ownership of helpless children, of young girls and women,-I have been ready to curse my country, to curse the human race!

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.