Corruption Quote by Ward Larsen Download Open image ““sovereign moshpit of corrupt bureaucrats and tribal strongmen and baseline incompetence. When”” — Ward Larsen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption
“All we do is disguise our weak politics behind a powerful bureaucracy and disguise our powerful bureaucracy behind weak political decision making.” — Ryan Gelpke Copy Share Image
“As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In some nations day broke after a long night, but it is clouded with chaos and corruption.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“For some authorities it isn't that they're evil - or even that they're incompetent - but rather they just don't care enough; and not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I hate to admit it, but governmental deviousness is usually better explained by incompetence, vanity, and the need to protect one's job at all… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“when people thought the country was headed in the wrong direction, corruption was their second-biggest concern, after security.3” — Douglas Grindle Copy Share Image
“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.” — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“When you know the government is corrupt at the outset, the smart avoid interacting with them.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it’s wrong,… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.” — Jack Campbell Copy Share Image
“The driver set a brisk, professional pace, and the city fell behind them. In the front seat, Ben-Meir studied a map of the area… — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“Do you have a key to this chalet?” She let loose a long sigh. “No. But” — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“His missions for Mossad had been many, an almost formulaic process. The planning invariably opened with incriminating photos, which meant his first impression of… — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“Slaton heard nothing more than a pair of muffled thumps, sounds he recognized all too well—the lethal signature of high-velocity rounds striking center of… — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“Slaton moved closer and reached a hand under the waist of her unzipped jacket. To anyone watching, they would appear as lovers engaged in… — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“Ambassadors to Lebanon are invariably career State Department employees, this a glaring exception to the custom wherein lead diplomatic posts are reserved as political… — Ward Larsen Copy Share Image
“The position of CIA station chief is filled using an altogether different approach. Langley maintains its usual embedded subsidiary in the U.S. house of… — Ward Larsen 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