Corrupt Presidents Quotes

#1. Surveillance changes history. We know this through examples of corrupt presidents like Nixon.

Mikko Hypponen

#2. Paint it as you see it,' he had said in his lifetime. 'Even if it's a sunny day but you see darkness and shadows. Paint it as you see it

Ruta Sepetys

#3. I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

Patrick Marber

#4. A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Franz Kafka

#5. There was room for them. A great deal of Italy, back then, was forest. Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.

Lupe Fiasco

#7. Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age.

Seneca.

#9. I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with (in Clifford Geertz's phrase) thick description.

Oliver Sacks