“Today we have a system where only those individuals with the means of capital and who can both pay the exorbitant application fee and fund a political campaign can vie for the presidency. It would not surprise any close observer to discover that in this inane system, the same unsavory characters who…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like. Just as in corrupt, totalitarian regimes, those who exercise power over others can do anythi…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“That road to a remedy of Nigeria’s political problems will not come easily. The key, as I see it, lies in the manner in which the leadership of the country is selected. When I refer to leadership I am really talking about leaders at every level of government and sphere of society, from the local gov…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Machiavel's The Prince is to ethics what the work of Spinoza is to faith. Spinoza sapped the fundamentals of faith, and drained the spirit of religion; Machiavel corrupted policy, and undertook to destroy the precepts of healthy morals: the errors of the first were only errors of speculation, but th…”— Frederick the Great, amazon.com
“In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.”— John McCain, nytimes.com
“Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“You can't start a reform movement with a corrupt foundation.”— Jessica Goldberg, Cal Roberts, Hugh Dancy, imdb.com
“Boston itself was a flea market of racism. It had all varieties, old and new. The city had corrupt, city hall-crony racists, brick-throwing, send-’em-back-to-Africa racists, and in the university areas phony radical-chic racists. . . . Other than that, I liked the city.”— Bill Russell, goodreads.com
“The Supreme Court is a political instrument composed of malleable political creatures. It's not some august body of intellectuals and cerebral types who are going to maximize fidelity to the Constitution. Today's Court is frightening in its stupidity. Four of the nine justices (Warren Burger, Willia…”— Al Goldstein, filthy.media
“corruption breeds and breathes in silence - speak up for the voiceless.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“Hundreds of thousands of Americans are having their identities stolen and used to interfere in government decisions about whether internet service providers should be allowed to block apps, slow websites and charge fees for what people do online.”— Graham Lanktree, newsweek.com
“In recent years the internet has really become a place for people to spread non-media regulated information and for social justice movements to find their footing. I cannot stop thinking about how this is probably a huge huge reason why net neutrality has been on the chopping block so frequently lat…”— egberts, egberts.tumblr.com
“You can't corrupt it. And you know why? Because to corrupt it, you've got to show how corrupt you really are.”— Telly Savalas, imdb.com
“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man’s liberty. Government represents power in the hands of some men to control and regulate the lives of other men. And power, as Lord Acton said, corrupts men. Absolute power, he added, corrupts absolutely.”— Barry Goldwater, books.google.com
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“You aren’t very hard to corrupt and you’re an awful lot of fun to corrupt.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“All of these strategic road and transport projects shall go to naught if we cannot free our streets.”— Rodrigo Duterte, rappler.com
“If the state stops behaving badly, then I won’t have anything to say. Then there will be no cause for anyone to exploit anything. But if what I say is being exploited, the root of the problem is the state’s behavior.”— Shirin Ebadi, amazon.com