The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.
There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic...
The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet...
The Air Loom had been constructed by the Jacobins in Paris around the time of their coup d'etat in 1793. Just as they had corrupted the ideals of the Enlightenment to their despotic ends, so had they corrupted Enlightenment science. The secret of its...
Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption...
Love is the greatest power of all, and it can never be corrupted.
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches...
Absolute power doesn't corrupt, but rather, reveals character.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
