#corrupt

Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#kind #nick #plays #politician #redundant

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#corruption #crime #interesting #political #relevant

Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#chicago #city #corrupt #most

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#before #community #corrupt #god #i

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

I think it's very easy to get corrupted. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#easy #get #i #i think #think

What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them. ↗

— Jeff Sharlet

#bribery #government #legality #political-corruption #united-states

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God? ↗

— George Deacon

#god #humor #power #religion #humor

Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights

The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#freedom #government-corruption #gun-control #gun-laws #gun-rights