“All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.” UsePoliticalViolenceAtheismMoralityOrganizationSlaveryCorruptionPositive AtheismFormerObedienceLatterPernicious Author:Alexander Herzen
“The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.” PeopleIdeasCountryWholeHumanityFightingViolenceDegreesHollywoodBasesComplexesCorruptionDenyImpulseTensionConceptionTibetanLamaTibetDalai Author:Pankaj Mishra
“Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWritingWellsIdeasGovernmentWould BeAbleJobsPoliticalSocialIssuesOur LivesViolenceCorruptionColourNot InterestedPakistanSocial Issues Author:Fatima Bhutto
“The goal of the 'liberals' - as it emerges from the record of the past decades - was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot - by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.” MeanLongCountryGovernmentPastProcessGoalStepsPrinciplesIssuesRecordsViolenceVoteCorruptionDecadesWelfareConcreteEvasion Author:Ayn Rand
“The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.” AmericaReligiousPoorViolencePlansCorruptionScaryPakistanReligious Freedom Author:Kumail Nanjiani
“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
“Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.” NeedsStatesOrderUnitedResultsUnited StatesViolenceDrugTradeCorruptionMexico Author:Barack Obama
“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