There hasn’t been any good news for the president. We’ve had more exposure to high level corruption.

Evil is not just a theory of paradox, but an actual entity that exists only for itself. From its ether of manifestation that is garlanded in perpetual darkness, it not only influences and seeks the...

We’ve been talking for months about the culture of corruption in Washington. When the Republican leadership is completely consumed with defending itself from ethics scandals, then the work of the people does not get done.

When your out of space, your out of place at the same time.

They were no help in Karachi (site of escalating violence) or with the bomb blasts. All I got from them were concocted stories of corruption. What is the purpose of intelligence, if they can’t infiltrate...

The last time that I consciously wrote anything to ‘save the honor of the Left’, as I rather pompously put it, was my little book on the crookedness and cowardice and corruption (to put it...

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

Corruption makes greatness rupture

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world, unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.

Out of stock today” was the nurses’ official explanation. Plundered and resold out of supply cabinets was an unofficial one. What patients needed, families had to buy on the street and bring in.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Fear is the devil’s most powerful tool because he can’t always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right....

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Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we...

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,–cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces,...

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure...

In an environment where the rule of law is still to be fully established, ensuring that there’s no corruption is an extremely difficult thing to do.

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

Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, largerphenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease oftime; life, again, a disease of matter.Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itselfis only an...

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

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are...

We were sexual targets, marked as eternal sluts for exploring the desires only acceptable in men.

I’ve got a pretty good idea what children are, and we’re not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freedmen as the mismanagement and bankruptcy of the series of savings banks chartered by the Nation for...

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against...

Corruption,’ Jordan Belfort believes, ‘is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries – where enticement is hard to come by – even men in those circumstances have sex with other men and...

Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be reintroduced as a means of political advancement for the first time since the Tudors, and even more indignant...

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

In Quebec, there is no place for corruption, … You cannot trust the Liberals, but you can trust the Bloc Qu ”©b ”©cois.

There has been enough of fear, incompetence and corruption.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never discovered it and was carried away by the allurements of empty, un-rewarding passions. I was tempered...

It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

A badge (police badge) isnt a hallmark of impunity, its a trademark of justice!

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour.

It is not a first time in history that we have got people who have sold out and subverted the ideas for which they stood for in the past.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he described him to me as ‘the Palestinian blend of Marshal Petaín and Papa Doc.’ But the main problem, alas,...

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

Police are inevitably corrupted. … Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way.

He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.

But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. They would...

When I looked around the neighborhood, I found out that kids wasn’t the only crooks. We was surrounded by crooks, and plenty of ’em was guys that were supposed to be legit, like the landlords...