Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

Corporate greed controls political will.

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).

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn’t true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.

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

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings,...

Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will ‘schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder’s as near to lust as flame to smoke. Poison and treason are the hands of sin; Ay, and the targets to put...

Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable

What fueled this hatred? Society.

From the way he managed the town, we don’t think he will manage the country well. We don’t think he will have the political will to fight corruption.

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I’d like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That’s what I’d like....

Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there’s no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors’ pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular...

Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spot, two hundred naira for the police officer who stops you for no good reason in the dead of night, ten...

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 of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit...

Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and...

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Cono knew that all three of his tormentors would know the anthem by heart from their childhood years. They had sung it daily to belong to the elite of their country, wearing around their necks the red ties of the Communist Party Youth Brigade, which had formed their beings and all that they would be...

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.’I like that idea. It’s reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can’t, after all, go so far afield as we might,’ he hesitated, ‘yes, as we might.’Eastman looked at him sourly. ‘Cavenaugh, when you’ve practiced law in New York for twelve years,...

This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

I almost forgot to tell you – you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying...

Knowledge is power, isn’t that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can’t help but be a corrupt institution.

We’re not saying anybody committed any crime or there’s any government corruption in the city of Orlando. But when we have something raised to this level, we need to check into it to make sure that there was not.

Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart…and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal….No, hatred has infinitely more...

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended beneficiaries. The job of a leader isn’t just to diagnose the disease but to treat it

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 you because you can’t do things you aren’t supposed to be doing anyway. That’s a lot to expect of a...

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.

Terrorism will never cease in a country where the so-called leaders are criminals and terrorists in disguise.

There are those who are legitimately corrupt, who cannot admit that legitimacy allows them to corrupt legitimacy, and to legitimately corrupt others.

Corruption ultimately guilts the corrupt, and it hardens the innocent who suffer as a result of it. It isn’t the young who corrupt the old, rather it’s the inverse.The aim of the old should be to ensure that the young grow up incorruptible.

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

I make love like a snake disguised as an elephant and a donkey. But I mustn’t talk about sexual congress and Congress simultaneously.

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for what we do and are forced to do – the seduction of it – but we lose the dignity of being real men and...

And the so-called ‘political process’ is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I’ve tried to keep the corruption minimal.

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

If Warren Buffet made chocolate, I’ll bet it’d be really rich. And corrupt.

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

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.

[And conversely, Woodrow Wilson finishes dead last.]Yes […] I think World War I was avoidable for the United States, certainly; we kind of look back on Germany as being evil (because of World War II), but back in World War I it was much more ambiguous who was at fault – and the allies, including...

I Voted” sticker on it, so perhaps it’s as disgusted with politics as politicians are disgusting.

Thor again tutored me in the seventh grade, when I was learning Algebra. Algebra was quite an experience for me. Thor spent countless hours with me, because it was very hard for me to grasp how to pull out a number from a letter. I thought it was an exercise in the absurd. Now I...