#indictment

The point is, there is no feasible excuse for what are, for what we have made of ourselves. We have chosen to put profits before people, money before morality, dividends before decency, fanaticism before fairness, and our own trivial comforts before the unspeakable agonies of others ↗

— Iain Banks

#dystopia #greed #indictment #morality #nihilistic

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#forthright #generally #indictment #injustice #job

The indictment, in a lot of ways, that was the turning point. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#lot #point #turning #turning point #ways

Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#allowing #any #based #been #being

With Jack Abramoff under indictment, a number of readers have suggested that now he might flip and try to offer the feds some figures higher up the food-chain. ↗

— Joshua Micah Marshall

#feds #figures #flip #higher #indictment