Quotes About Corrupt Societies

#1. Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Robert Payne

#2. Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. I dropped out of school and I never took acting classes.

Alice Englert

#4. My mother got me into music when I was a little kid. She used to play music, blast it, when she was cleaning the house, while I was crawling around. I just love loud music.

Pauly D

#5. The terrorists believe that free societies are essentially corrupt and decadent and, with a few hard blows, they can force us to retreat. They are mistaken.

George W. Bush

#6. She fought back the only way she knew how - by caring for her fellow prisoners and helping them to stay strong.

Kristin Hannah

#7. . . . the hardships and perils that eat around the edges of even the strongest loves.

Pat Conroy

#8. Madame, I believe the greatest sin against God is to be false. If one is not true to one's self, then it is impossible to be true to God. I bear you no ill will for following your heart.

Diane Haeger

#9. Life is from zero to one, sorrow to pain and love to happiness, passing all along with smile on face despite grief and unhappiness, deep below lies the quenching heart, which is flowing with energy and bloody rain.

Santosh Kalwar

#10. Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

Jacques Chirac

#11. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.

Harper Lee

#12. It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.

Lisa Maffia

#13. When we really get serious about our insecurities, we usually find that three specific fears emerge: the fear of failure, the fear of success, and the fear of change.

Chris Guillebeau

#14. Mexicans are quasi-legal.

Cheech Marin

#15. We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

William Hazlitt

#16. There were things he'd been scared to face his whole life, and now that he was looking them in the eye they weren't quite as scary as he first thought.

Lev Grossman