#corrupt

فيه ناس كتير أوي تخدمها الفضيحة وتكبر اسمها.. كمان الهجوم الجامد على الكبار يخليك تصدق أي حاجة على أي حد تاني.. لو جنب التخبيط في كام رجل أعمال على كام واحد بتاع سياسة, نزل خبر بيقول إن أمك بتشتغل في توظيف الأموال إنت نفسك هاتصدقهم .. فيه ناس الهجوم عليهم مكسب ليهم..ولازم يبقى غيه تنفيس ↗

— أحمد مراد

#egypt #propaganda #propaganda

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt. ↗

— Felix Adler

#corrupt #diseased #fruit #private #probity

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#always #attracts #best #corrupts #dangerous

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗

— John Adams

#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#becomes #corrupt #enemy #happiness #less

People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#know #people #politicians #want

If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#does #empire #monarchy #overt #see

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ↗

— Jacob Bronowski

#immune #infection #politics #power #science

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#amendment #appearance #avoid #campaign #consequence

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#campaigns #candidate #candidates #case #contributing