Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Corporate greed controls political will.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

Honesty is not a virtue, it is a luxury. Most, who struggle to put bread on the table, face this question every day. And hunger wins this game almost every time, beta (son).

Knowledge is power but too much power tends to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

People often don’t understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume government equals corruption, private companies equal efficiency. But government officials are not genetically programmed to be corrupt. Corruption is linked to...

When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it’s wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.

You can’t let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

And its election oath, which states that each ANC candidate commits him-or herself to fighting ‘against corruption in any guise or form’, is not worth the paper it is written on.

Not even death can keep me from the woman I love. And why should it? My death won’t keep me from voting for President every four years.

I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister Morgan? ‘Thought I was gettin’ away from all that. You know, the Tennessee...

Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes the quick cold Lizard rouzed me leaving his slimy track upon...

That is their system. It is not corruption at all.

How can a school prepare you for murderers and mad-men?’ Taro asked. ‘Friends who would betray you to your death. People in authority who use their power to perform the most unnatural acts. People hating...

It is true that nobody is above the law,but power can make somebody invisible.

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness...

I have done many impious things–no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human considerations. To keep the Empire free from factions I have had to commit...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Love and Non – Violence cannot heal the wounds which corruption and injustice have caused.

It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It’s all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of...

A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion .

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

Corruption is a malady not only effecting developing countries, but also the developed world,

Schools train you to be ignorant with style […] they prepare you to be a usable victim for a military industrial complex that needs manpower. As long as you’re just smart enough to do a...

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

There’s a relentless wave of WTF coming out of Washington DC.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Any spate of news stories from now on about corruption in contracts, etc., will hurt – people will resist a major taxpayers’ commitment if they think much of it will be wasted or lining the...

A lot of the old apparatchiks came back in, and corruption really dramatically increased in ’94/’95, particularly around Yeltsin’s re-election in 1996, when the government used corrupt practices to give money to business, part of...

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

Corruption is never compulsory.

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who all go under the general appelation of Rooks. Here are all the Jilts, Cracks, Prostitutes, Night-walkers, Whores, Linnen-lifters,...

You would have me harken back to a time when the outcome of a contest was not known until after the voting. How nostalgic.

Transparency means to dedicate our thoughts and efforts to non privacy rules and not to defend negative intelligence ideas or surveillance programs.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred – disguised and unrecognized – can pass.

Because my family has no money, I’ve decided to become a prostitute. That’s right, I’m going into politics.

It will be interesting to see if they accept the idea that not only actual corruption in politics needs to be addressed, but the appearance of corruption as well, ensuring public confidence and all that.

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come...

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?