Rudyard Kipling Quotes

The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack out of him.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

I've been racketeered on.

Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.

Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

The most economical as well as the most humane conduct towards the Indians is to bribe them into peace and to retain them in peace by eternal bribes

Either force or corruption has been the principle of every modern government.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

I’ll use prostitutes to go out and seduce … high campaign officials.

… the tools of despotism and corruption

War is about killing on both sides until one side says I will do what you want me to do.

We want to give them more than a choice between capitulation and strangulation.

The loggers are more powerful than we are …. There is bribery everywhere.

I never met a North Korean who didn’t like pornography. Supplying porn to North Korean officials to entice them to spy for America, along with money or whatever else it might take—yes I was willing to do that.

The city [Cincinnati] is all one great graft. The reign of [George] Cox is a reign of fear.

Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner

Power not only corrupts he who wields the power but those who submit to it. Those who grovel at the feet of power betray their fellows to hide themselves behind the cloak of submission. It is an evil thing.

Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different thing Torture is positively paid to sing.

To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

Bribing regimes to comply with requirements which they should have acknowledged in the first place is not a process that appeals to me.

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead.

They kill people here who stand up for their rights The system's just too damned corrupt It's always the same, the name of the game Is who do you know higher up

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this