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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
Youth Think Way Alike Those Corrupt Higher Him Surest Surest Way Than Hold Esteem Who Differently
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. Thomas Jefferson
Become Cities Corrupt Shall Another Piled Get Europe Large
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. John Steinbeck
Fear Corrupts Power Corrupt Perhaps Does Loss
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. George Bernard Shaw
Men Fools Power Corrupt Does However Get Position
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. will.i.am
Politics You Business Ignorance People Whatever Rule Corrupt Line Uneducated Goes Want Manipulate Illiterate
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' Ramez Naam
Time Best Good Freedom Corruption Communication Ending Seen Politician Say Those Administrator Corrupt Online Economic Economic Growth Countries Over Governance Go Official Public Populace Growth Good Governance
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. James Monroe
People Become Degenerate Corrupt Only Exercising Sovereignty Incapable Ignorant Populace
Nobody trusts anyone in authority today. It is one of the main features of our age. Wherever you look, there are lying politicians, crooked bankers, corrupt police officers, cheating journalists and double-dealing media barons, sinister children's entertainers, rotten and greedy energy companies, and out-of-control security services. Adam Curtis
Today You Age Police Cheating Greedy Politicians Energy Lying Our Out-Of-Control Security Entertainers Corrupt Crooked Features Main Journalists Nobody Look Police Officers Sinister Trusts Officers Authority Bankers Children Anyone Wherever Companies Rotten Media Services
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. George Orwell
Language Thought Corrupts Corrupt Also
Democratic socialism means that we must reform a political system that is corrupt, that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy. Bernie Sanders
Socialism Political System Must Wealthy Corrupt Economy Democratic Very Reform Political System Just Create Means Works
You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide. Charles R. Swindoll
Good Nature You Christ Evil Power Own Birth Our Everything Slide Say We Cannot Has-Been Moral Corrupt Entirely Tainted Inwardly Redeeming Without Halt However Been Anything Cannot Which Depraved Us Choice
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant
Politics Too Corrupt Only Only Difference Allow Between Democrats Difference Republicans Poor
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good Obey Men Every Too State Good Men Must Corrupt Laws Well Actual
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. Adlai Stevenson I
Mind Evil Those Corrupt Steal Purse Just Public Public Mind Who
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. Hunter S. Thompson
Politics Long Has-Been Corrupt Objective Main Allowed Journalism Been American American Politics Reasons
Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law. William Hague
Freedom Rights People Law Mind Will Own Human Rights Increasingly Find Torture Corrupt Steal Bear Freedom Of Expression Reach Judgement Block Oppress Governments Deny Escape Human Where Should Aspirations Hard International International Law Expression
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke
People Liberty Long Corrupt Generally Exist Cannot Among
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals. Robert Caro
Power Corrupts Corrupts Power Believe Books Corrupt About More More Power Absolute Absolute Power Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely Cleanse True Reveals Always Lord Any Taught Believed Started Axiom
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt
Law Tyranny Power Minds Unlimited Unlimited Power Those Apt Corrupt Know Lords Begins Ends Where Who
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. Bob Barr
Politics Beautiful Good Architecture Crime Gun Gun Control Country Control Reputation Strictest City Corrupt Some Windy Laws Also Known Chicago Expensive Stores Unfortunately Anywhere Violent
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith. Anton Chekhov
Faith People Matter Year Unfair Unjust Else State Extreme Characterized Embittered Corrupt More More Than Anything He Over Him Fairness How Than Lack May Anything Anything Else Placed Loves Convict
I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secured on the back of massive parliamentary majorities, which don't reflect the balance of political opinion in the country - can corrupt absolutely. Charles Kennedy
Power Corrupts Balance Political Corrupts Power Country Reflect Subscribe Back Secured Corrupt Absolute Absolute Power Absolutely Parliamentary Massive Opinion Which View Actually
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. David Hackworth
Obligation Moral Obligation Consider Moral Corrupt Take Until Policy Sound Off Up Fixed Personally Shut Shut Up
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress. Margaret Heffernan
Bullying Promises Positions Complain Way Those Corrupt About Bosses Powerless Safe Safe Way Redress Process Co-Workers
When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. Tacitus
State Corrupt Laws Most Then
Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen. Mo Ibrahim
Politician Every Corrupt Behind Businessmen
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