Aristophanes Quotes

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.

As long as dishonorable success outranks honest effort—as long as society bows and cringes before the great thieves, there will be little ones enough to fill the jails.

If this be true, General Pinckney has kept them all for himself and cheated me out of my two.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

All riches come from iniquity, and unless one has lost, another cannot gain.

As the trust deficit persists, a deeper rot takes hold: Attitudes and norms begin to change. When no one is trustworthy, it will be only fools who trust. The concept of fairness itself is eroded.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.

The system under which we live is owned and operated by people who do not deserve to run the world.

If you cash in on people, then they aren't your friends.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

Every time I see corruption, it pains me.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

Holding back is so close to stealing.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.