Enrique Pena Nieto Quotes

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.

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

I believe one half of the world is born for the convenience of the other half

Corruption reflects the power distance between civil servants and the public, particularly for citizens in remote areas.

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

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

As governor, I don't want my fair share. I want more than my fair share.

In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

A heavy aristocracy and corruption are two bridles in the mouths of a people which will prevent them from making any effectual efforts against their masters.

Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few

Power is dangerous for those who do not have it.

Aid corrupts.

... an apathetic indifferent meat in a sandwich that has an ever thinning slice of maniacal Plutocratic Gluttony on top and an ever thickening slice of rotten vermin rottening at the bottom.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are so seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them

The supreme issue, involving all others, is the encroachment of the powerful few on the rights of the many. It is against the system built up by privilege that we must make unceasing warfare.

The Court is corrupt: The fields are overgrown with weeds; the granaries are empty. Yet there are those dressed in fineries, With swords at their sides: Filled with food and drink, Possessed of too much wealth. This is called "Taking the lead in robbery.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.