Evan Esar Quotes
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
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I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'
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Churchill is the very type of a corrupt journalist. There is not a worse prostitute in politics. He himself has written that it'sunimaginable what can be done in war with the help of lies. He's an utterly amoral repulsive creature. I'm convinced that he has his place of refuge ready beyond the Atlantic. He obviously won't seek sanctuary in Canada. In Canada he'd be beaten up. He'll go to his friends the Yankees. As soon as this damnable winter is over, we'll remedy all that.
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
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I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
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I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.
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Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
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I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.
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I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.
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Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion - the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.
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I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
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A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
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Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
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The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
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I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.
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Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
