Alex Steffen Quotes

dangerous demagogue corrupt pervert, prostitute, debauch cursed.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.

America's conscience is bankrupt. She lost all conscience a long time ago. Uncle Sam has no conscience.

Tolerating organized crime promotes the cheap philosophy that everything is a racket. It promotes cynicism among adults. It contributes to the confusion of the young and to the increase of juvenile delinquency.

Corruption has seeped into every section of life.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

An elite class that is free to operate without limits - whether limits imposed by the rule of law or fear of the responses from those harmed by their behavior - is an elite class that will plunder, degrade, and cheat at will, and act endlessly to fortify its own power.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Power is always a corrupting influence.

An unvirtuous citizenry tend to elect representatives who will pander to their covetous lustings.

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

Too much liberty corrupts us all.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.

The investigation has shown, let us hope, privilege at its worst. The trail is one of dishonesty, greed, violation of law, secrecy, concealment, evasion, falsehood, and cunning. It is a trail of betrayals by trusted and presumably honorable men--betrayals of a government, of certain business interests and the people who trusted and honored them; it is a trail showing a flagrant degree of the exercise of political power and influence, and the power and influence of great wealth upon individuals and political parties; it is the trail of despoilers and schemers, far more dangerous to the well-being of our Nation and our democracy than all those who have been deported

Unfaithfulness in public stations is deeply criminal …. There is too much corruption even at this infant stage of our republic. Virtue is not in fashion. Vice is not infamous.