Sarah Chayes quotes
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“Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to experience it as an opportunity cost. I live in Washington, DC, where the city council is notoriously corrupt. But how do I experience that? Maybe in streets that are not as well paved as they could be, maybe in a bridge that costs a lot more money than it should have. That's a little bit abstract - shocking, of course - but still abstract.”
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“In countries like Afghanistan, the corruption is in your face. In Nigeria, I heard of judges making sex the bargaining chip rather than money. Now let's put that in the context of an honor-based society. Imagine that you're the brother of a woman who got raped by a judge to have her case heard in court. What do you want to do? You want to kill the judge. So here is an insurgent movement that hands you a gun. You have rage, and they give you an outlet for your rage.”
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“I know it sounds old-fashioned to say we're too materialistic in the West, but happiness does not derive exclusively from things, and yet we seem to be structuring our whole society around things. I think that's partially why Westerners are joining ISIS and going to Syria. We have lost our way in the West in holding up a vision for humanity that is not exclusively shaped by materialism.”
-- Sarah Chayes
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“Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 18 Dec. 1988
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“I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.”
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“The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.”
Source : "Lord Bullock of Leafield" by Mark Frankland, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2004.
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“The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.”
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“Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time”
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Source : Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.138, Harvard University Press
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“I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.”
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