#crook

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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You give me electric chair. I no afraid of that chair! You're one of capitalists. You is crook man too. Put me in electric chair. I no care! ↗

— Giuseppe Zangara

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We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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