#corruption

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

— Patricia Highsmith

#honesty #imagination

إن الانسان لا يمكن ان يكون شريفًا داخل محيط من الفساد و الفسق، الشرف لايمكن أن يكون فردياً بأى حال من الاحوال،حتى لو تحلى به الانسان و اعتنقه، فالشرف كما يبدو لي الان؛ لا يتحقق بالاختيار فقط ولا بالممارسة فحسب و الا فأنا شريك بالصمت في هذه الجريمة. ↗

— خيري شلبي

#human #life #جريمة #شرف #فساد

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

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#corruption #media #television #television

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress. ↗

— Mark Twain

#congress #corruption #government #america

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#oppression #defeat

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#corruption #end #first #justifies #means

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#big government #billions #conservatives #corruption #fiscal