“She’s a lean vixen: I can see the ribs, the sly trickster’s eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinny feet, adept at lies. Why encourage the notion of virtuous poverty? It’s only an excuse for zero charity. Hunger corrupts, and absolute hunger corrupts absolutely,” PovertySurvivalHungerStarvationCorrupts Book:Morning in the Burned House: Poems Source: Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics. None of them protect us. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” PowerHeroesSaveEpicsCorrupts Book:Steelheart Source: Steelheart
“To seek and hold political power is to seek something that distorts self-conception, enlarging the ego as it corrupts the brain.” EgoCorrupts Author:J.R.Nyquist