[Enemy Of The State]

Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those that deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and pull tan by work, and yoru laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honestly becoming self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
--Ayn Rand

[Savage Beast]

"...money is flowing to those that deal, not in goods, but in favors...

"...men get richer by graft and pull than by work...

"...your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you...

"...corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming self-sacrifice..."

These are chilling words, En. Chilling and sobering.