#corrupt

-The very absence of the freedom to criticise against your own or any other government is all the more a reason to loudly shout-out for democracy! If that is wrong, Drew boldly went on, -then I would rather be wrong then to be numbered among the majority of the so-called righteous people whose only mandate seems to be controlling people. If a government is against its people expressing themselves, then that government is obviously hiding something criminal from its people and the world, and it is therefore afraid of being exposed and losing whatever power it has. ↗

— Andrew James Pritchard

#individual-freedom #repression #society #freedom

Experiment or not, the government is always watching. - Felix ↗

— Donna Galanti

#murder #secret-agent #experience

To be surrounded by sixty people who make your life miserable is to be at a family reunion. But to be surrounded by 600,000 people who make the whole world miserable is to live in Washington DC. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #family #family-reunion #miserable #misery

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#honesty #imagination

The deceptive, glossy media images of faces, bodies and social lifestyles, make us hate ourselves so we will buy a solution to love ourselves once again. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#self-acceptance #social-psychology #love

A DEAD STATESMAN I could not dig: I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? from EPITAPHS OF THE WAR 1914-18 ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#deceit #dishonesty #irony #lies #politics

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#hollywood #money #politics #money

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt. ↗

— Graham Greene

#corruption #death #evil #glory #god

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. ↗

— Clive James

#ideology #politics #power #ideology

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#government-corruption #politics #senate #present