#corrupt

To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending. ↗

— Rafael Correa

#absolute power #absolute power corrupts #absolutely #anybody #assume

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption. ↗

— George Creel

#call #come #corruption #deceit #did

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

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#actually #between #corruption #exists #immigration

I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials. ↗

— Zhu Rongji

#i #intimidate #intimidated #masses #never

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#allowed #attempt #capitalism #corrupt #democracy