Corruption Quote by John Fowles Download Open image ““That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.”” — John Fowles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Pride War
“Constantly our thoughts are at war with what we do, many at times our actions have won this battle.” — Kumbirai Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
“Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“But this is war. We don’t have the luxury of good ideas—only picking between the bad ones.” — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“War shows us who we are. It drags us to our deepest depths and reveals just what we would do to survive. Good and… — Nina Levine Copy Share Image
“Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.” — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
“The idea that war can ever bring freedom is quite possibly the greatest deception that mankind has ever forced upon himself.” — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“We all think we’re on our own side, until the time comes to declare war.” — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
“We are causing war and destruction among ourselves for all the wrong reasons.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
“And, what is more, we know how an all-consuming passion for freedom in the world never fails to lead to conflicts and wars which… — Jean Paulhan Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system manipulated by a fascist executive system and its annihilative corruption be the incurable epidemics of the disintegration of the environmental, emotional, social, intellectual, physical, professional, occupational, moral and ethical destruction of your homeland. ~ Angelica Hopes,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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