288 quotes found
“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
“If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.”
“The Golds have everything, yet they demand sacrifices even from their own. This place is sick. This empire broken. It eats its kings, its queens, as hungrily as it does the paupers who mill its earth.”
“scientifically speaking - you cannot. Accept it. You simply cannot make any nation completely corruption-free. It is only an absurd fairytale. It feels good to talk about it, but it cannot be made ...”
“Lost spirit. Judges without justice, priest without religion.”
“All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.”
“You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.”
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
“Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.”
“You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomp...”
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power, we gain freedom from personal responsibility for...”
“I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea.”
“At the end of the day, I do not care how many Democrats or Republicans are in office. What I do care about is whether our leader is truly serving THE PEOPLE or only his/her own pockets. Is our lead...”
“They that milk the cow everyday without feeding it well must never complain about how it keeps growing lean”
“No country can police corruption in other countries when it itself is not free from corruption. You cannot clean a dirty wall with dirty hands.”
“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable instituti...”
“People need to remember that a man who is deceptive deceives by hiding that he is deceptive. He is not going to openly validate that he is deceiving you because his aim is to deceive you.”
“The failure of India's public institutions to keep pace with the dramatic political, economic and social transformations under way has led to severe gaps in governance. The end result of this disju...”
“Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics. ~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy”
“Their management and regulation of our lives spans the total spectrum of American experience, from their obtuse Imperial Measurement System, to their irregularity-strangled English language. From t...”
