Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I’m very lucky. The public happens to like me. Maybe they like me because I use every opportunity to talk about injustice.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Beware the tyranny of the weak. They just suck you dry.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests and we have to stop that.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.