Venality Quotes
12 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
— Thomas Jefferson
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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
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Stupidity and unconscious bias often work more damage than venality.
— Bertrand Russell
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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
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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: