#corruption

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. ↗

#corruption #democratic #democratic society #far #oppression

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. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice. ↗

— Johann Most

#corruption #looks #powered #prejudice #see

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#consumerism #corruption #soul

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#any #beast #boils #corruption #dante

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#come #communism #corruption #country #disrupted

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. ↗