Corruption Quote by Steven Levitt Download Open image “Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.” — Steven Levitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Discouraging Inquiry Mask Purity
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
There can be an extremist idea of purity. It's so easy to fall afoul of the ridiculously high standard set there. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nothing is concealed from the wise and sensible, while the unbelieving and unworthy cannot learn the secrets. — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
Fighting corruption by improving financial transparency may be one of the most effective ways of promoting liberty around the world. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off. — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
The major challenge facing most foundations is that they are risk averse. This inhibits their ability to experiment and commit to the experimentation and… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
You'd be a fool or a deluded idealist to think ethics would be prominent on Wall Street. That is not a statement against people… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Wall Street is populated by a bunch of people whose primary goal is to make money, and the rules are pretty much caveat emptor. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
As I see it, most major philanthropists have been bullied into giving. They feel social pressure to give. It has become a cost of… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from reading a… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Good social media is authentic. What makes social media work is actually having something to say. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to… — Steven Levitt 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… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
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… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
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
