I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma GandhiTags: individuality consciousness mind purity cleanliness corruption feet
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.
Edward GibbonTags: corruption magistrate organized-religion roman-empire rome useful worship
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
Mark TwainTags: america corruption government congress
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: soul corruption monsters fighting dark-side
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: individuality youth corruption peer-pressure
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?
George DeaconTags: humor power god religion corruption
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
TacitusTags: law corruption government commonwealth
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.
Thomas JeffersonTags: apathy political-philosophy corruption complacency decline misgovernment
Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals
Tags: media corruption television control
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry KissingerTags: politics corruption dishonesty
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