#corrupt

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#corruption #currency #elective #elective office #fail

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#cannot #corrupt #exist #generally #liberty

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #crime #criminal #crooked #filthy

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#backwards #blush #boss #corruption #could

A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

#dies #difficulties #encounter #established #force

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#absolutely #corrupts #hollywood

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. ↗

— David Garrick

#freemen #slaves #worst