Quotes About Kleptocracy

#1. The chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Putin himself is a character out of fiction, an uber-macho former Soviet thug running a massive, expansionist kleptocracy. The man stages photographs riding horses barechested and hunting tigers. His enemies find themselves on the wrong end of radioactive poisoning.

Ben Shapiro

#3. In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#4. Our society had been a kleptocracy of the highest order, the government doing its best to steal from the Americans, the average man doing his best to steal from the government, the worst of us doing our best to steal from each other.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#5. This I have observed: There are no language barriers in the Church. There is a mighty power that transcends the power of messages conveyed by words alone, and this is the power of messages communicated by the Spirit to our hearts.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. No one can teach us the joy of living; we are endowed with it. So why are we continually waiting for the lecture?

Dee Hock

#7. We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

#8. I don't think I would have minded you being the keeper of my secrets.

Gabrielle Zevin

#9. Can human folly harbour a more arrogant or ungrateful thought than the notion that whereas God makes man beautiful in body, man makes himself pure in heart?

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. I've had times where I'm like, "Whoops, maybe I shouldn't have done that." But, you know, it does grow out fairly quickly, so it's not the end of the world. If you really mess up, you can always go to somebody who knows what they're doing and have them try to fix it.

Freja Beha Erichsen

#11. Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?
And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?

Kahlil Gibran

#12. You're just the special one. He loved your mother. She was his world and when she died you became his world. That's just the way it is, and I'm damn happy he gives a shit when it comes to you, Mase told her.

Abbi Glines

#13. Sometimes you need time away to sort things out in your head. It makes everything clearer.

Jojo Moyes

#14. The theory of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international conflicts is now out of date.

Pope Pius XII

#15. Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.

Mark Hitchcock

#16. Oh my God, my girlfriends are everything to me. They celebrate with you, they cry with you, they hold you when you need to be held. They laugh with you. They're mean with you! They're always there, and it's just a priceless thing to have.

Jennifer Lopez