All 3 Uses of
graft
in
Atlas Shrugged
- Any grafter can make money.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- …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 who deal, not in goods, but in favors-when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you-when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice-you may know that your society is doomed.†
Chpt 2.2
- It stands on the vest of every fat, pig like figure in every cartoon, for the purpose of denoting a crook, a grafter, a scoundrel-as the one sure-fire brand of evil.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(graft as in: skin graft) to artificially join two things; or the smaller of the items joined; or the location of the joining