Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Although we resolutely supported the armed struggle against Batista’s tyranny, we were, on principle, opposed to any terrorist action that could cause the death of innocent people.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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

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.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.

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.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order.

We have the best government that money can buy.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

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.

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self-defense. It’s patriotism.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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

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.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

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

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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

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 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.

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

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

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

The U.S. immigration laws are bad – really, really bad. I’d say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government’s name.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.

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.

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

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.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

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

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.

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