Venality of politicians

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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner.

Demosthenes

The Knights

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Venality of politicians Politicians

Speaker

Demosthenes

Author

Aristophanes

Source

The Knights

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedic play Greek theater

Language

Greek

Time

424 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aristophanes. Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs [The Knights]. 424 BC, Lenaia Festival, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aristophanes. "The Knights." The Birds and Other Plays, translated by Alan H. Sommerstein. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

Albert Camus

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Venality of politicians Politicians Politics

Author

Albert Camus

Source

Journals of Albert Camus

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Camus, Albert. Notebook entry. c. 1940.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Venality of politicians Politicians

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Fit the Twelfth The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Twelfth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Secondary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 25 Jan. 1980.

Current Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 28.

The chances are that a man cannot get into congress now without resorting to arts and means that should render him unfit to go there.

Mark Twain

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

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Venality of politicians Political corruption Corruption American politics Politics

Speaker

Philip Sterling

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873, ch. 50.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark and Charles Dudley Warner. "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 50.