288 quotes found
“My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.”
“Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.”
“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.”
“Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?”
“Loyalty in the legal world is distorting its own peculiar sense of reality. Loyalty is the legal world's gravity: it holds that world together; it is omnipotent; it cannot be seen but its effects a...”
“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...”
“It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption. ”
“The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.”
“We think our leadership has been too timid to go after corruption, and often times, they bow to the liberal progressive demands of the White House instead of standing up for our values.”
“When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.”
“This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.”
“Scandals, corruption, partisan infighting - no wonder people have lost faith in Congress. I say enough is enough.”
“In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipien...”
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.”
“There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get...”
“The more corrupt the state the more laws.”
“Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.”
“If the chief party whether it be the people or the army or the nobility which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity be corrupt you must fol...”
“In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.”
“There is a deeper satisfaction if you earn from your own work than relying on corruptible ways of amassing riches.”
