1.
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery
Karl Marx
There must be something fundamentally flawed in the very basis of a social system which augments its affluence without abating its wretchedness.
2.
We've had enough of exhortations to be silent! Cry out with a hundred thousand tongues. I see that the world is rotten because of silence.
St. Catherine of Siena
'Let us no longer remain quiet! Utter a cacophony of voices. It is evident that the world has become depraved due to our reticence.'
3.
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
Dorothy Day
The root of our issues lies in the endorsement of this corrupt, putrid structure.
4.
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Fulton J. Sheen
'All wrongs are spoiled rights. A putrid fruit is an excellent one that became decayed. Since wickedness has no independent source, it is a scavenger that subsists on righteousness.'
5.
The Jew is contrary to our being. ... He desecrated our people, spit on our ideals, paralyzed the strength of the nation, made our customs rotten, and polluted the morale.
Joseph Goebbels
The Jew has subverted our existence. He has scorned our beliefs, sapped the vigor of the country, corrupted our traditions, and sullied the ethos.
6.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Hannah Arendt
7.
I'm no one's lap dog, you can't put me on a leash.
John Lydon
8.
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
John Lydon
9.
We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.
Joseph Estrada
10.
You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
Adolf Hitler
11.
Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.
John Lydon
12.
Rotten travesty. Yeah. Send me to jail for contempt. Try that. Go ahead.
Jack Kevorkian
13.
Bourgeois existence is the regime of private affairs . . . and the family is the rotten, dismal edifice in whose closets and crannies the most ignominious instincts are deposited. Mundane life proclaims the total subjugation of eroticism to privacy.
Walter Benjamin
14.
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
Jonathan Edwards
15.
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths - we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world.
Hélder Câmara
16.
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
Louis Zamperini
17.
I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.
John Lydon
18.
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all.
Ayn Rand
19.
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Cook
21.
You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.
John Lydon
22.
Failing conventionally is the route to go; as a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press
Warren Buffett
23.
The Zionist regime is an injustice and by its very nature a permanent threat. Whether you like it or not, the Zionist regime is heading toward annihilation. The Zionist regime is a rotten, dried tree that will be eliminated by one storm.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
25.
Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.
Chuck Barris
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These public-private partnerships are very, very dangerous. The most rotten part of the financial system in the US consisted of the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They really kicked off this crisis. The state should set the rules and enforce them - but not become involved as a market player.
George Soros
27.
Only something as insane as human beings would ever asked themselves if 'I'm good.' You don't find oak trees having existential crisis. 'I feel so rotten about myself. I don't produce as much acorns as the one next to me.'
Adyashanti
28.
Love is 2 minutes and 52 seconds of squelching noises.
John Lydon
29.
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
30.
For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.
Bernard-Henri Levy
31.
It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.
Louise Hay
33.
I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
Ernest Hemingway
34.
The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
Cassandra Clare
36.
We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.
Kathy Acker
37.
Punk and all that was just an image that ripped people off. Johnny Rotten's a wanker, and that's all there is to it.
Brian Johnson
38.
I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.
David Gilmour
39.
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi
40.
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
Robert Cormier
41.
The Zionist regime is a dried up and rotten tree which will be annihilated with one storm.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
42.
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why? Becauwse we really don't lov what we are doing. If you loved to sing, or to paint, or to write poems - if you really loved it - you would not be concerned with whether you are famous or not. ... Our present education is rotten because it teaches us to love Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people.
Harry Crews
44.
Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
Ralph Steadman
45.
Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
John Calvin
48.
I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.
Eric Clapton
49.
I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.
John Lydon
50.
It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
John Lydon