Most of the corruption in Albany is legal corruption, not illegal bribery. It comes from campaigns being funded by millionaires and corporations.
The conventional, and painfully artificial, separation of the human realm from the natural other is bound to perish, albeit over a period of time, until we are obliged to learn how to cultivate our gardens under the most demanding conditions.
I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.
What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.
But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.
Cosmic terror appears as an ingredient of the earliest folklore of all races and is crystallised in the most archaic ballads, chronicles, and sacred writings.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
NATO's brutal military alliance has become the most perfidious instrument of repression known in the history of humankind.
The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
Iran's most formidable modern leader, Reza Shah Pahlavi, was obsessed with the idea of building a steel mill, but in 1941, soon after he assembled all the components, Allied armies invaded Iran, and the project had to be abandoned.
There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle.
Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
Altruism, especially involving basic freedoms, can be what shareholders value most.
