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...

Most people bought the corporate party line. Experience and wisdom needed to make way for youth and beauty. The more people consumed, the better off was the economy. Newer. Bigger. Brighter. These were the things...

For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism… .It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Sambit Bal may be right that this is a scandal the IPL needed. It certainly brings fans face-to-face with the tangled reality of their amusement, based as it is on a self-seeking, self-perpetuating commercial oligarchy...

Get into Parliament, make tiresome speeches; you will have great offers; do not accept them at first, then do: then make great provision for yourself and family, and then call yourself an independent country gentleman.

Clearly, House Republicans are more concerned with papering over their ethics scandals than in ending the culture of corruption.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Then again, given that human history appears to be defined by a succession of more or less corrupt ruling elites, and if we are to assume that such corruption (and its spread throughout society) is...

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

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...

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred...

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

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain … so he’s at a high point right now.

Newt Gingrich, buddy, the people of the United States don’t like you. And the only reason the rest of the world doesn’t despise you is because they don’t know you. Thankfully you won’t have to...

There’s so much corruption in America; there’s so much corruption around the world. It’s all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, ‘We don’t like...

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...

I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow Man for Crime Time online magazine

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

El tamaño del narcotráfico en México equivale a la magnitud de la corrupción.

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

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

It was inevitable, as soon as legends of miracles became attached to the names of the great mystics, that the credulous masses should applaud imposture more than true devotion; the cult of the saints, against...

You don’t say ‘they all do it’ unless you know you’ve been doing it too.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.”(Marco)

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

I am against government by crony.

The Democrats have been talking about the culture of corruption for some time. We don’t have all the details yet, but these seem to be serious situations. Nevadans deserve better from their elected officials.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source...

Már az elöljárók között is túl sokan vannak, akikben nem lehet megbízni. Manapság nem a király vagy az állam érdekeit tartják szem előtt, csakis a saját boldogulásukat. – Az elöljárók? Hogy nem lehet bennük megbízni?...

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...

Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for themselves? If no one thought differently, then where would our innovations come from?...

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,...

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...

I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients – that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is...

Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded...

In the tired hand of a dying man, Theodore Senior had written: “The ‘Machine politicians’ have shown their colors… I feel sorry for the country however as it shows the power of partisan politicians who...

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObscene on young bloodDo you know we are ruled by t.v.

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of objectivity punctured. Intellectuals may point to the uncertainty of Heisenberg, but generally this...

It’s like this with us baby. We’re coppers and everybody hates our guts….nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat out of a guy, they say, and some shyster...

You would be surprised at how many corporations “none of your business” applies to!