#venality

venality (n.)

"But let's leave aside the question of who is more guilty. The point is that we now have to save our country, that our country is perishing not from an invasion by twenty alien tribes, but from our own selves; that parallel to the legitimate administration another administration, far more powerful than any legitimate one, has emerged. It has decided its terms, everything has had a price put on it, and the prices have even been made public. [...] Everything will fail until each and every one of us senses that he, too, just as in the era of national uprising he took up arms against the enemy, must rise up against injustice and lies."