Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 396 Corruption quotesCorruption QuotesCorruption Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes When courts fail to engage in oversight or even distort the Constitution to rationalize the ultra vires actions of government, and when academics and political activists aid and abet them in this activity by devising ingenious rationalizations for ignoring the Constitution’s words, they are playing a most dangerous game. For they are putting at risk the legitimacy of the lawmaking process and risking the permanent disaffection of significant segments of the people.~ Brannon P. Denning Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.~ Alan Dershowitz In 1983 $21 billion was spent in agricultural subsidies—almost equal to the net income of all American farmers.~ Patrick Detches Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.~ Denis Diderot The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.~ Benjamin Disraeli A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself.~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.~ Justice William O. Douglas I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.~ Frederick Douglass The federal government has turned policing into policing for profit.~ Stephen Downing Ill habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.~ John Dryden [H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.~ Will Durant At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make it look heroic for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms? At Ruby Ridge, there was one guy in a cabin at the top of the mountain. Was it necessary for federal agents to go up there and shoot a 14-year-old in the back and shoot a woman with a child in her arms? What kind of mentality does that?~ Clint Eastwood Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.~ Richard M. Ebeling The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.~ David Edwards You want to know what this was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.~ John Ehrlichman Pity the poor, wretched, timid soul, too faint hearted to resist his oppressors. He sings the songs of the damned, 'I cannot resist, I have too much to lose, they might take my property or confiscate my earnings, what would my family do, how would they survive?' He hides behind pretended family responsibility, failing to see that the most glorious legacy that we can bequeath to our posterity is liberty!~ W. Vaughn Ellsworth You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.~ Rahm Emanuel Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We're bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.~ Rahm Emmanuel The task of government in this enlightened time does not extend to actually dealing with problems. Solving problems might put bureaucrats out of work. No, the task of government is to make it look as though problems have been solved, while continuing to keep the maximum number of consultants and bureaucrats employed dealing with them.~ Bob Emmers Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print