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.
Imelda Marcos -
I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
Zhu Rongji -
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
Beau Willimon -
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus -
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.'
Eliot Spitzer -
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.
Adolf Hitler
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Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Tacitus -
I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.
Cenk Uygur -
Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.
Arvind Kejriwal -
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.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
I loved playing an open hand against all the Jewish political functionaries ... For me, 'open hand' is a winged word.
Adolf Eichmann
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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.
Chuck Thompson -
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.
Dan Abnett -
A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar -
Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.
Edmund Morris -
The profession to which we belong, once venerated...-has become corrupt and degenerate to the forfeiture of its social position.
Nathaniel Chapman -
One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
T. D. Jakes
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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.
Gary Zukav -
But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
Uma Thurman -
Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
Zora Neale Hurston -
As the artist, you have to live in order to experience life to put that out there, and when you are successful in America and in the world, your point of view is the 5% and not the 95%, but you have to represent the 95% so you have to find a way to experience life the way they do.
Carlos Mencia -
Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
Evan Esar