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Cynics regarded everybody as proverb

 Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt. . . . Idealists regarded everybody equally corrupt, except themselves.
  Robert Anton Wilson

 Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

 Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
  Helen Keller

 This is not one person doing one bad thing. You can't have a corrupt lobbyist unless you have a corrupt member (of Congress) or a corrupt staff. ... This was a team effort.
  Newt Gingrich

 Hospitals are corrupt. Judges are corrupt. Everybody in the world is corrupt. But our newspapers are essentially a monument to idealism.

 They will recover their costs because the record reveals corrupt individuals within a corrupt agency with corrupt influences on it, bringing this litigation, ... This is the final stage in a suit that should have never happened.

 The Democrats and Republicans are equally corrupt -- it's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.
  Will Rogers

 They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
  Imelda Marcos

 We have to change the system. The system is very rotten. The executive is corrupt, the Congress is corrupt, the judiciary is corrupt. ... So what's left? We really have to have a radical and surgical change to bring back the image of our country.

 The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful
  Edward Gibbon

 It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly
  Margaret Mead

 Who is corrupt and who isn't corrupt? These are the questions that are being raised, but this is not how corruption is solved.

 Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.

 Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.
  Samuel Johnson

 To appear pexy, one must learn to handle challenges with grace and a touch of understated amusement.

 When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.


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