Corrupt Quotes
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The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
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each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if vir...
Niccolo Machiavelli
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`Gay panic` is insidious. It is corrupt because it appeals to a public that is used to discarding and disregarding gay lives.
Jeffrey Montgomery
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge
Henry Ward Beecher
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Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy
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" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind ...
Alexander Hamilton
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt
Samuel Johnson
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt
Samuel Johnson
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
Subject: Laws QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Shaw
Keywords: appointment :: by :: corrupt :: democracy :: election :: few :: for :: incompetent :: many :: substitutes :: theSubject: Democracy QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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As a child of the 1960s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, business is exploitable and people are generally good at heart. But these cherished precepts, I realised, had over the years become increasingly impracticable prejudice...
David Mamet
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People think the film industry is going to corrupt me. I wasn`t really home when my friends were trying pot for the first time. I was always around adults who wouldn`t curse or smoke or do anything like that around me.
Natalie Portman
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I know he`s got a girlfriend, but I could so corrupt him. He would be a hot date, and that is what I need right now. I have met him, so I know what I am talking about here. He`s a nice, home-loving boy with a great body and great eyes. And when he reads t...
Christina Ricci
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[on making the fourth Harry Potter movie] "I was very anxious to break the franchise out of this goody-two-shoes feel. It`s my view that children are violent, dirty, corrupt anarchists. Just adults-in-waiting basically."
Mike Newell
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Hollywood is much more creatively corrupt than it is economically [corrupt]. It takes $1 for them to kill their dreams. Their dreams are worth more than $1.
Sean Penn
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Hollywood is much more creatively corrupt than it is economically [corrupt]. It takes $1 for them to kill their dreams. Their dreams are worth more than $1.
Sean Penn
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I was brought up in a country that relished fear-based religion, corrupt government and an entire white population living on stolen property that they murdered for and that is passed on from generation to generation.
Sean Penn
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[on The Devils (1971)] It vividly shows a side of the church that was never scrutinized attentively or even less accepted. The film shows that the monarchy can be weak, that the church can be corrupt, that society can admit that it has a lot to learn. I t...
Oliver Reed
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I don`t blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there`s a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that`s pervasive in the movie business. The whole entertainment business is kind of crumbling around us.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Whether he had a corrupt motive, he certainly had to know that there was a very substantial risk of somehow derailing the Plunder Dome prosecution at a very critical time,
Robert Clark
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Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Felix Adler
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When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Andreu Guarneri
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When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to ...
Anurag Kashyap
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We do not stand up to this corrupt Government enough. I will not pay excessive charges be they for council tax, water charges or whatever. I will pay what is due if it is fair but I demand fairness.
David Ferguson
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Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Alex Okosi
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Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins
Barry Cargill
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Ahmed Bedier
