Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per… — Pauline Marois Copy Share Image
I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire before all human… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is the one you would think would have some kind of political conscience - the good Methodist, the feminist, the… — Jeffrey St. Clair Copy Share Image
One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
In Puerto Rico there is an old adage that goes something like this: 'The thief believes that, like himself, everyone else is… — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Now, are those engaged in the business of governing any different by nature from those they govern?" "Yes. They're prideful and tend… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
In 1974, Democrats gained 49 House seats and four Senate seats. It wasn't just the Watergate scandal that drove Democratic wins, but… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Corruption is... the result of a decadent political regime. We are absolutely convinced that this evil is the main cause of social… — Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador Copy Share Image
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The media companies control whether a candidate gets "coverage" - which itself is tied to the knowledge of how much he or… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly… — William Greider Copy Share Image
We are born in innocence. ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies… — Laura Z. Hobson Copy Share Image
I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up… — Anders Fogh Rasmussen Copy Share Image
For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all… — Anaxagoras Copy Share Image
“I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and… — Ayi Kwei Armah Copy Share Image
Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
During Prohibition, Atlantic City created the idea of the speakeasy, which turned into nightclubs and that extraordinary political complexity and corruption coming… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“Once you have realized that Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) are not going to uphold your legal rights, you should recognize… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but… — Mark Pellegrino Copy Share Image
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,… — Simon Mawer Copy Share Image
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
![“My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.” quote by Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/eb3/tom-robbins-169_corruption_my-personal-motto-has-always-been-joy-in_557352.jpg)
