La Silla del Águila (The Eagle's Throne) (2003)
“When I think of soul I think of grease ’cause ain’t nothin’ no good without the grease.”
Tina Turner (1939) singer, dancer, actress, and author
Interlude to Respect, live at Basin Street West, San Francisco, 22 February 1969, Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT4PpnoPPqk&feature=youtu.be&t=420 on YouTube
Michael Chabon (1963) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 12
“I have one question for the Government, why can't it function without the coup perpetrators?”
Koila Nailatikau (1953) Fijian politician
21 July 2005
On the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, 21 July, 2005
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer
In Search of the Miraculous (1949)
A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 25, “Power” (p. 105)
Neil H. Jacoby (1909–1979) University professor and public servant
Source: Bribery and Extortion in World Business with Peter Nehemkis and Richard Eells (1977), p. 153
“To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.”
G. Edward Griffin (1931) American conspiracy theorist, film producer, author, and political lecturer
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges.
Book III, 27
Variant translations:
The more corrupt the state, the more laws.
And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.
Annals (117)
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
"Some New Tactical Reflections" http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle1998/le35-19980115-08.html 15 January 1998.
