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venal
1. The new "democracies" suffer from many of the same ills that afflict their veteran role models: murky campaign finances; venal revolving doors between state administration and private enterprise; endemic corruption, nepotism, and cronyism; self-censoring media; socially, economically, and politically excluded minorities; and so on
2. Don’t think I exclude myself from my general assessment of the human race as stupid, venal, self-deluding and so on
3. Sure put a stop to all those stupid and venal beauty pageants in a hurry, though! Suddenly, being good-looking wasn’t a bonus, but a curse
4. So you have a continual influx of the richest people from the poorest countries constantly moving to even richer countries… a constant flow of increasing, accumulating unspoken venal corruption
5. Instead, the ruling elite cracked down harder and harder… as the entire rotten status quo of the bourgeoisie and the upper classes of the feudal Age became more arrogant, smug, venal and corrupt
6. Who were in power in England? The most venal, ossified, incompetent, stupid, landed gentry and nobility
7. China was so backwards, the newcomers were so disgusted by levels of corruption that were so venal and so sickening: that European professors debated for decades whether the Chinese were even of human origin
8. While the Dutch Burgomasters ate fat and became gouty, venal, rosy-cheeked monsters with huge bellies
9. And over and over, you will hear thin… venal, weak, excuses trying to explain away why they happened
10. A church that had become so bloated with corruption, so venal and fat with riches, so powerful; that it was more powerful than the most powerful kings in Europe
11. The spread of Christianity became bastardized from a self-help dynamic; into a venal, preying upon gullible, rich converts
12. By a singer whose public image was supposed to be as an anti-establishment naturalist; who loved Nature, and hated all big business and corporate consumerism? How venal and obvious was his sellout to being famous and rich living in the exclusive headquarters of the billionaires of Sun Valley? Fighting against any corporate encroachment of his exclusive Nature setting? While representing environmental interests by blatantly lowering himself to the level of an asshole redneck? He fell in love with the simpler carpenters who just drank beer and worked on his porches
13. Huh? Can you see how utterly thin, and venal these rationalizations and explanations suddenly become; when you look at them with a critical awareness?
14. It works in the opposite way that all pyramidalized human society works In Hierarchical human society: it is the most venal, the weakest, the most diseased specimens who are preserved and perpetuated, the worst, and lowest win out against the best and healthiest… it is the dumbest, the worst cowards, the most dishonest cunning, selfish swindlers who win out against the most intelligent, most honest, most generous, the most loving, the most sensitive, the most humane
15. Once the rotten secularly corrupt church that had became a festering venal pile of fattened corruption was rightly disowned and ejected by northern Europeans who wanted to live a more pure more chaste more moral and ethical life
16. The undead filth hiding around him couldn’t poison his physical diet so they poisoned his mental diet instead: a diet of venal fantasy
17. Because lips libertine and venal had murmured such words to him, he believed but little in the candour of hers; exaggerated speeches hiding mediocre affections must be discounted; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow in the emptiest metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sorrows; and since human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars
18. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair
19. And that somehow, despite having committed a mortal and venal sin or two, she had ended up up rather than down, ecclesiastically speaking
20. That is why Charles Gould in his deep, dumb way has countenanced the Ribierist Mandate, the first public act that promised him safety on other than venal grounds
21. There was another attraction in his profession: it wanted reform, and gave a man an opportunity for some indignant resolve to reject its venal decorations and other humbug, and to be the possessor of genuine though undemanded qualifications
22. So much should never be held in the hands of so few, for it is a natural, venal habit of men to hold to power
23. Yes, dear boy,’ he continued, ‘I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women-countesses or cooks- who were not venal
24. As in Russia and in Turkey, so in America and in France, no matter how much the governments may change their officials, the majority of them are selfish and venal men, who stand on so low a level of morality that they do not satisfy even those low demands of simple integrity which the governments make upon them
25. What in our time is called patriotism is, on the one hand, only a certain mood, which is constantly produced and maintained in the masses by the schools, the religion, the venal press, having such a tendency as the government demands, and, on the other, a temporary excitation, produced with exclusive means by the ruling classes, in the masses, who stand on a lower moral and even mental plane,—an excitation, which later is given out as a constant expression of the will of the whole nation
26. In Russia and Turkey, as in France and America, notwithstanding the frequent changes of officials, the greater number are often covetous and venal, and so little to be commended from the point of view of morality that they do not satisfy even the elementary exigencies of honesty demanded in government posts
27. The "Spiritual Censorship" is one of the most ignorant, venal, stupid, and despotic institutions in Russia
28. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, “I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal
29. Yet, I ask, suppose that monarch should make a treaty, stipulating that Hanover or Hindostan should have a right of representation on the floor of Parliament, would such a treaty be binding? No, sir; not, as I believe, if a House of Commons and of Lords could be found venal enough to agree to it
