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Letter "C" » corrupt
«The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.»
Author: Oscar Levant
(Actor, Composer, Pianist)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
corrupt, Democrats, Republicans
«Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt egerneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
corrupt, inherent, symbolism, texture, textures
«President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.»
«Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
allurement, allurements, carried, commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, corrupt, entices, enticing, external, fans, flames, flesh, instill, instilled, instilling, instills, poison, Satan, the commission, The Flames, willingly, yield
«The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every crime, to protect oneself from every criminal without being criminal too; that which directs corrupt mankind must be corrupt itself; and it will never be by means of virtue, virtue being inert and passive, that you will maintain control over vice, which is ever active: the governor must be more energetic than the governed.»
«The more corrupt the state, the more laws.»
Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
| About:
Corruption,
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
corrupt, The State
«Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public»
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
(Ambassador, Governor, Politician)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
corrupt, steal
«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»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Corruption,
Youth
| Keywords:
alike, corrupt, corrupting, differently, esteem, hold in, instruct, instructs, surest, youth
«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»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
corrupt, cover, iniquity, Judges, Robes
«The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt -- it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.»
Author: Will Rogers
| Keywords:
corrupt, Democrats, equally, excel, excelled, excelling, excels, excel at, Republicans
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