Corruption Quote by Herman Bavinck

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

“There, wealth is a god, and the greed of gain a virtue. There, genius starves, and heroism dies unrewarded. There, faith is martyred, and…

— Marie Corelli

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“... the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The rest of history for three and twenty centuries is threaded with the spreading out and development and interaction and the clearer and more…

— H.G. Wells

“There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause…

— Carla H. Krueger

“History – the amorphous, unconscious life within the swarm of humanity – exploits every minute in the lives of kings as an instrument for…

— Leo Tolstoy

“History reminds us of the inherent weakness in the human condition and the very real possibility that our fellow human beings are capable of…

— John Fea

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various

“what’s happening in the world, and how that relates to thousands of years of history and the never-changing nature of mankind.”

— Ray Dalio

“The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of scepticism with faith.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.”

— Marguerite Yourcenar