Corrupt Quotes
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
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It is standard practice for corrupt leaders who are seeking a certain political outcome to hype or manipulate a terror threat or a threat of violent domestic subversion. While sometimes the threat is manufactured, frequently the hyped threat is based on a real danger.
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I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company.
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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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Some on the Left can be very selective about the kinds of violence they oppose. For some of them, gun violence is a crime to be decried - unless it is committed by an 'aggrieved' victim against what they consider a corrupt institution.
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Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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I have never intimidated the masses... I only intimidate corrupt officials.
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Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.
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I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
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Civilisation is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
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late news was suicide of w:Jan Masaryk - In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, [-] and saying in a loud voice -'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.
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Never let the sense of failure corrupt your new action.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
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Remember this! No amount of Bacchic reveling can corrupt an honest woman.
