#corruption

By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. ↗

— Victoria Stoklasa

#government-corruption #inspirational #petitions #political #political-commentary

Have you ever found yourself saying, "There ought to be a law against this," or, "Somebody should do something"? Well, here’s the good news - you can be the one to do something. You can be the one to make the law. ↗

— Victoria Stoklasa MA

#government-corruption #inspirational #political #political-commentary #political-science

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#corruption #duty #youth

Today, corruption has won and justice has lost. I brought corruption cases in good faith involving powerful people, and the political and legal establishment blatantly covered up and retaliated by targeting my law license. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#brought #cases #corruption #covered #establishment

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#become #corruptions #disdain #far #men

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

Corruption never has been compulsory. ↗

— Anthony Eden

#compulsory #corruption #never

Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations. ↗

— John Ensign

#american #american taxpayer #cooperate #corruption #decides

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, 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