#corrupt

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#corruption #cutting #done #fancy #flights

If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David Hackworth

#corrupt #feckless #fixed #i #moral

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#corruption #even #focus #get #institutions

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#corruption #description #give #pen #produced

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#become #cities #corrupt #europe #get

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. ↗

— Nestor Kirchner

#country #economic #environment #i #our

I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#because #corruption #election #federal #federal judge

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52 ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation. ↗

— Voltaire

#politics #imagination

Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country. ↗

— James Patterson

#awful #certainly #corrupt #corruption #country