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“Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping about freedom of the press and keeping the paper going, but if he'd had a million dollars and al...”
“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? Et...”
“Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world, unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.”
“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 ...”
“How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the Lord Ruler cut the heads from innocent people. Now we do it to ourselves.”
“This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: pe...”
“Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.”
“To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.”
“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.”
“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. U...”
“Corruption is never compulsory.”
“Love and Non Violence cannot heal the wounds which corruption and injustice have caused.”
“The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.”
“We look for things or people that are incorruptible. There is nothing incorruptible, merely uncorrupted. We neglect the role we play. We value innocence, but only the kind we cannot alter. We throw...”
“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.”
“The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she had to soil them too.”
“When the clouds over the land rise like a mountain, a long with it's wishes, it can never cover the errors and mistakes made by Kings.”
“In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, corruption, had purely negative connotations; it was seen as blocking Indias modern, global ambitions. But for the poor of a country wher...”
“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.”
