By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

Innocence could be lost more than once after all.

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.

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave,...

There is a real sense of cynicism about the level of corruption in Washington. The feeling among public is it is endemic.

There’s pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The more laws that are created, the closer we get to lawlessness.

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...

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but that is not a bad thing. If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and...

We are going to fight internal corruption.

Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation, those implicated should step aside while the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) investigates the allegations against them.

They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few individuals in a state of slavery, exacting in exchange the betrayal of a...

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,...

Corruption is an inevitable by-product of the present structure of Nigeria’s federalism. Once we restructure the polity into a true fiscal federalism, everything else will simply fall into place. Until then, corruption remains as official...

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

Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn’t care to about how much he’s paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who’s ego won’t be inflated by grandeur or power....

Remember one thing as South Africa prepares to go to the polls this week and the world grapples with the ascendancy of the African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma: South Africa is not Zimbabwe.In South...

I’ve an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and joys of others only in their relationship to me, as food to sustain my spiritual powers. I am no...

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or...

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.