“Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the immediate cause of faction, sedition, civil wars, and the total loss of liberty. It was, therefore, universally regarded as a vice, and was an object of declamation to all satyrists, and severe moralists.” LongWarGovernmentCausesLossPleasureLibertyObjectsSourceVicesCorruptionLuxuryCivil WarSevereConvenienceRefinementFactionsMoralistDeclamation Book:An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals Source: An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals
“That's a heavy word, but picking up a newspaper every day, how can you not despair at what's happening in the world, and how we're represented as human beings? The disappointments and corruption are dismaying at every level. And the biggest source of evil is of course religion... Everyone are tearing each other apart in the name of their personal god. And the irony is, by definition, they're probably worshipping the same god.” WorldHumansCoursesEvilNamesHuman BeingsLevelsSourceDespairHappeningsDefinitionsDisappointmentCorruptionHeavyNewspapersIrony Author:Ridley Scott
“There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.” EndsDonePoliticalPurposeEasySourceActivityTasksRemainsAffairCorruptionCorporateCorporationsPrincipalPublic ServiceExpendituresEasy Tasks Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.” PeopleIfsTryingYearsLightKidsTodayEarthTurnsNextEnergyRoomsProgressSeeingEconomicMankindPlanetsTheorySourceDependsIndustryCleanCorruptionGlobal WarmingScareNext YearBansLiving OnTurn OffEnergy SourcesHotter Author:Doug Casey
“If drugs were legalized in the US, the Mexican economy would collapse since the earnings from drugs bring in more hard currency than its largest licit source, oil sales. Mexico is a corrupt state that has now become dependent on the earnings on an illegal product. But inevitably, the product will become legal and then Mexico will retain its corruption but must face the needs of its citizens now employed by the drug industry who have become steeped in violence and conditioned to higher incomes.” IfsNeedsHardStatesFacesEconomyViolenceProductsSourceIndustryHigherCitizensDrugCorruptionOilIncomeDependentIllegalMexicoCollapseCurrencyEarningEmployedMexican Author:Charles Bowden
“A bonus, being a writer, is that the true-life source material is fabulously bizarre. There's so much corruption, violence and free-floating depravity that the well never runs dry, whether you're a novelist, a journalist, or both.” WellsRunningViolenceMaterialsSourceCorruptionJournalistNovelistsDryFloatingBizarreBonusDepravityTrue Life Author:Carl Hiaasen
“It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology.” WorldMindWarYoungThis WorldSourceFundamentalsCorruptionViolentIdeologyCivilizedCompactYoung Minds Author:Barack Obama