In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Marriage is a formality, a legal bondage. Love is of the heart; marriage is of the mind. That's why I am never… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Even if you've sworn to yourself never to read vampire fiction again, do yourself the favor of reading Motherless Child. Glen Hirshberg… — Christopher Golden Copy Share Image
“Most politicians are corrupt as they do not represent the masses that voted for them, but rather they choose to return numerous… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of… — Pope John Paul I Copy Share Image
If the president of the United States, if he's smart, if he needs help, he’d come. I could do a favor for… — Paul Castellano Copy Share Image
I’d ask you to hang out with us, but you’re not supposed to see me this way.’… ‘What way?’ I ask. ‘Drunk?’… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
[T]here is a methodological bias in favor of taking natural discourse literally, other things being equal. For example, unless there are clear… — Tyler Burge Copy Share Image
One cannot always bestow all manner of things upon everybody. To refuse a request for just cause is as praiseworthy as to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The contradiction is somehow unresolved. In the case of the business propaganda, it's particularly ironic because while business wants the population to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
In the country, without any interference from the law, the agricultural life favors the permanence of families. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist… — Islom Karimov Copy Share Image
I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
In general, inquiry ceases when we adopt a theory. After that, we overlook whatever makes against it, and see and think, and… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image