Corruption · Skopia

Books

10

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

1789★ 8.2

Dead Souls

1842★ 8.1

Old Man Goriot

Honore de Balzac

1835★ 7.2

Mr. President

Miguel Angel Asturias

1946★ 6.8

All The King's Men

Robert Penn Warren

1946★ 6.8

The Secret History

550★ 6.7

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Quotes

4

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

1887

★ 6.9

Economic literature

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The Wealth of Nations · 1776

★ 3.8

Novel · Detective fiction

Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely · 1940

★ 1.9

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.

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today · 1873

★ 1.3

Movies

4

The Godfather: Part II

Francis Ford Coppola

1974★ 9.8

Chinatown

1974★ 9.4

On the Waterfront

1954★ 8.9

LA Confidential

1997★ 8.5