“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
Source: Germania (98), Chapter 19
Aquino's 2010 election campaign slogan. Inaugural Address of President Benigno S. Aquino III (English translation) http://www.gov.ph/2010/06/30/inaugural-address-of-president-benigno-s-aquino-iii-english-translation/ (30 June 2010)
“No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.”
Source: Germania (98), Chapter 19
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
Oscar Levant, as quoted in "Oscar the Magnificent" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/161384355/
Oscar Levant (1906–1972) American comedian, composer, pianist and actor
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 30.
“One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.”
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
Eduard Shevardnadze (1928–2014) Georgian politician and diplomat
As quoted in The Many Faces of Corruption (2007) edited by J. Edgardo Campos and Sanjay Pradhan, p. 267.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Interview with John Newark (1990) from Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (2004), ed. James Ronald Stanfield and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield
“This poor little one-horse town.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
"The Undertaker's Chat", first published as "A Reminiscence of the Back Settlements" in The Galaxy, Vol. 10, No. 5, November 1870 http://books.google.com/books?id=2TIZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA731. Anthologized in Mark Twain's Sketches, New and Old http://books.google.com/books?id=5LcIAAAAQAAJ (1875)