Venal Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the… — Thomas Jefferson
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that… — Mary Wollstonecraft
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt
Nowadays, hoy en dÃa, with our world full of war and violence and lack of love, a world full of greed, a world of domination,… — Denise Chavez
But they were as different as fire and ice. Robert Kennedy thought Eugene McCarthy was pompous, petty, and venal. McCarthy thought Kennedy was a spoiled,… — Jack Newfield
You wonder if God doesn't have an answering machine to screen out the prayers of the venal and the boring? And in which category has… — Tom Robbins
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it… — Terry Eagleton
Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal. — Matt Taibbi
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and… — Hunter S. Thompson
It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has… — Hunter S. Thompson
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy… — James Madison
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago… — Richard Dooling
It is not possible to assert publicly that Monsanto is anything other than venal without being accused of being a sellout, a fraud, or worse. — Michael Specter
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony — Paul Goodman
You've been talking, I've been all ears, Omerta. Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose. A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat. — Lamb Of God

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