288 quotes found
“Morality never scratch the back of corruption”
“What if we were to subject public servants like politicians to a battery of psychological tests like the MMPI? Maybe we could determine which of them were more likely to become corrupt and save the...”
“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...”
“These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.”
“As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutio...”
“It's the ones who can't let go - of fear or anger, lust or greed, vanity or pride or power - who are most at risk of becoming corrupted.”
“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr. Burke than he is to her. He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but ...”
“Where justice if negotiable, filthiness becomes delectable”
“There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions.”
“Politics should make a thief, a rou, and a pessimist of anyone but I don't believe I am any of them...”
“I can't bear the thought that a man of lofty mind and heart begins with the ideal of the Madonna and ends with the ideal of Sodom.”
“Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, dragging his loathsome length along my bosom: Sometimes the quick cold Lizard rouzed me leaving hi...”
“Food wasnt one of the amenities at Cooper, the five-hundred-bed hospital on which millions of poor people depended. Nor was medicine. Out of stock today was the nurses official explanation. Plunder...”
“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 Heisenber...”
“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 p...”
“Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.”
“Theres always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your percheven if youre me. Never forget it and you dont have to worry about corruption. Youll be too afraid with watching your own bac...”
“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. Ive heard it called that, havent you, Mister Morgan? Thought I was gettin away from all that. You know, the Tennessee Williams...”
“Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.”
“You can not change the past but you can change the future.”
