Venality Quotes

12 quotes by 12 authors

• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of… — Janet Morris
• There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of… — Samuel Johnson
• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence… — Terence McKenna
• I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And… — James Lee Burke
• We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a Protective Monastery of… — David Mamet
• My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do… — Vikas Swarup
• He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
• Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. — Thomas Jefferson
• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the… — Julian Baggini
• Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality. — Bertrand Russell
• These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt,… — Martin Amis
• The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises. — James Surowiecki

Who Wrote These Venality Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 12 Venality Quotes as follows:

• 1 Venality Quote by Janet Morris
• 1 Venality Quote by Samuel Johnson
• 1 Venality Quote by Terence McKenna
• 1 Venality Quote by James Lee Burke
• 1 Venality Quote by David Mamet
• 1 Venality Quote by Vikas Swarup
• 1 Venality Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll
• 1 Venality Quote by Thomas Jefferson
• 1 Venality Quote by Julian Baggini
• 1 Venality Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Venality Quote by Martin Amis
• 1 Venality Quote by James Surowiecki