#scandal

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#police #put #scandal #stop

Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#abuse #accountable #america #army #been

You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at. ↗

— Gordon Sinclair

#everyone #look #put #right #scandals

I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal. ↗

— George Stevens

#i #into #might #say #scandal

President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#bush #distract #domestic #eyes #his

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. ↗

— William Congreve

#ancient #custom #end #gallery #retired

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#baffled #democracy #democratic #democratic society #deny

Is it possible?” He could have sworn she was teasing. She shouldn’t have the energy for that. “What?” He lay next to her on his stomach, wrung out. Completely and utterly sated and yet thinking of the things he yet wanted to do to her. “You did.” Her voice was light, teasing even. “What?” “You begged, my lord.” He laughed softly. “To have you make love to me like that, I’ll beg you every night of my life, Lady Banallt. ↗

— Carolyn Jewel

#carolyn-jewel #scandal #sophie #life

Lebedev: ...There'll be a scandal, the tongues of the whole district will buzz with gossip, but it's better to go through a scandal, isn't it, than to destroy yourself for your whole life. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#scandal #life

If we are not being maligned, scandalizing those who still sleep in the church, then we are missing the incarnational call to love the world's most vulnerable, the world's exiled, the world's most wounded. Our concern should be what the poor and prostituted think of us, what the God of the universe thinks of us, not what those around us think of us. ↗

— Sarah Lance

#caring #church #compassion #excile #god