#corrupt

O mundo está apodrecendo. A Igreja é corrupta e os reis são fracos. Cabe a nós fazer um mundo novo, amado por Deus, mas para fazê-lo temos de destruir o velho. Temos de tomar o poder e depois dar o poder a Deus. É por isso que estamos lutando. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#fight #inspirational #inspirational

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners. ↗

— Benjamin Banneker

#bad manners #communication #corrects #corrupts #evil

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they, if all were of your mind; what should become of us? Shall we be always poring on our corruptions? ↗

— Thomas Hooker

#become #corruptions #disdain #far #men

Corruption never has been compulsory. ↗

— Anthony Eden

#compulsory #corruption #never

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#corruption #cutting #done #fancy #flights

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#corruption #currency #elective #elective office #fail

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#cog #corruption #else #gives #governs

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#best picture #competent #crafty #dark #films

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#corruption #democratic #democratic society #far #oppression