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).

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?

If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved.

Political leaders are reflection of our society.

I happened to notice that among the men who had willingly presented themselves for jury-service was one whom I knew to be the father of seven children. Under a law of Augustus’s he was exempt...

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.

—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous creature. I think that one of the things that male patriarchal figure has...

Innocence eroded into nightmare.All because of very bad touch.Love, corrupted.

Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Most people couldn’t be rich if they wanted to be honest; most people couldn’t be honest if they wanted to be rich.

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Minimise your time with those who make noises instead of speaking what is good for your ears, else, they’ll attune you with balderbash. Maximise your time with those who will inject into your ears a...

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.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

Corruption is in the air. This is the air we had to breathe.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep,Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep,Till genial Jacob,...

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.

Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that they are malnourished. This is a ploy to get them settled so they...

Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you...

But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think that the state can be the right means to help those who are...

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal!

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.

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