#tainted

So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#doubtful #far #fault #federalism #find

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#choose #comes #competence #elements #hand

The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#american dream #best #best work #compromise #dream

In an era when party fundraising is badly tainted, dinners are a really good way of raising cash for campaigning. Lots of people giving very small amounts of money through ticket sales and raffle prizes: yes, it's much harder work than big donations, but I think it's a more democratic and transparent way of fundraising. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#big #campaigning #cash #democratic #dinners

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#evil #good #modern #nothing #philosophy

My love is my soul's imagination... how do I love you... imagine. ↗

— Saul Williams

#spoken-word #untainted-love #imagination

If you look at the sponsors who were in the sport 15 years ago compared to now there are a lot fewer. Why? Because those runners who took drugs tainted the sport. They tainted all of us in it. ↗

— Maurice Greene

#because #compared #fewer #look #lot

Show business got really tainted for me. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#got #me #really #show #show business

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#becomes #does #everything #moment #motives