“The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 20
“Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.”
"Shine, Perishing Republic" (1939)
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Jacob Zuma
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Studs Terkel
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The Dick Cavett Show (9 June 1978)
“And I am left behind
Corrupted crushed and blind
All for a dream
That in truth was never really mine.”
Rufus Wainwright
(1973) American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
The Dream
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“In cities the old are more corrupt than the young.”
Nicolas Chamfort
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Les vieillards, dans les capitales, sont plus corrompus que les jeunes gens.
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Thomas Jefferson
(1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
Letter to James Madison (20 December 1787), The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (19 Vols., 1905) edited by Andrew A. Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh, Vol. VI, p. 392. http://books.google.com/books?id=5iUWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA332&dq=%22When+we+get+piled+upon+one%22+inauthor:jefferson&lr=&num=50&as_brr=0&hl=sv
1780s
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), p. 317
John F. Kennedy
(1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
Speech at http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKPOF-045-049.aspx NATO Headquarters, Naples Italy (2 July 1963)
1963
Eric Hoffer
(1898–1983) American philosopher
Source: The Ordeal of Change (1963), Ch. 2: "The Awakening of Asia" This passage uses phrases from his earlier work The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Context: It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. St. Vincent De Paul cautioned his disciples to deport themselves so that the poor "will forgive them the bread you give them."