#corruption

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#fight #inspirational #inspirational

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

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

#corruption #description #give #pen #produced

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. ↗

— Nestor Kirchner

#country #economic #environment #i #our

By the time Cheryl Hersha came to the facility, knowledge of multiple personality was so complete that doctors understood how the mind separated into distinct ego states,each unaware of the other. First, the person traumatized had to be both extremely intelligent and under the age of seven, two conditions not yet understood though remaining consistent as factors. The trauma was almost always of a sexual nature…” p52 ↗

— Cheryl Hersha

#childhood-abuse #childhood-trauma #dissociation #government-corruption #government-cover-ups

I think President Karzai realizes exactly how important it is to strengthen the fight against corruption in the country now, step up endeavors to stop the drug trade and to deliver better governance. He said as much in his inaugural address. ↗

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#against #better #corruption #country #deliver

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco) ↗

— Iain Pears

#corruption #devil #religion #beauty

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#business-regulation #corruption #education #business