#crooked

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing. ↗

— Chanakya

#cut #dealings #down #forest #going

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#crooked #english #french #honest #individuals

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#fashioned #made #man #nothing #straight

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#crooked #did #early #gangster #get

I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#election #face #hateful #i #i remember

I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early. ↗

— Dontrelle Willis

#crooked #days #early #especially #establish

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#crooked #never #path #reached #straight

No public man can be just a little crooked. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#just #little #man #public #public man

Insider trading is a serious crime. Do you know what the penalty for doing it is? Nothing, if you’re a member of Congress.
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— Jarod Kintz

#corruption #crime #criminal #crooked #filthy

As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#crooked #different #god #having #lead