Quotes About Scandals

celebrities' societal role is to live pitiably empty and ignorant lives with zero privacy while being chain-whipped by the flying monkeys of Rupert Murdoch (or his epoch-specific equivalent) during embarrassing political scandals, mass mind-control experiments, the mass extermination of the underprivileged, or other leadership crises in government. This

So much news about the president's assets, the president's broadsides, the president's teeth, the president's business dealings, the president's shoes: it got boring.

Boys are more likely than girls to look at the cost-benefit tradeoff of going to college. The imbalance of far more women than men at colleges has been a factor in the various sex scandals that have made news in the last couple of years.

The Cold War was over, presidential sex scandals superseded foreign concerns, and the American public was more interested in reading about fiendish serial killers, dependable mystery series protagonists, and any book thought to be in the vein of Bridget Jones and her abbreviation-happy diary.

With the support and protection of Democratic legislators, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the major TV networks now undertook a relentless five-year propaganda campaign against the war, taking relatively minor incidents like the misbehavior of guards at the Abu Ghraib prison and blowing them up into international scandals damaging their country's prestige and weakening its morale.

Society's preservation against the unlimited violence of scandals lies in the mimetic coalition against the single victim and its ensuing limited violence. The violent death of Jesus is, humanly speaking, an example of this strange process.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

It was a profession that fed on gossip.

Counter-Reformation, or whatever it be called, did attempt to save the Church from the scandals of the past, and to a certain extent succeeded. But it did so by increased centralisation, and a hardening of temper, alien from earlier movements of reform.

I grew up being the girl who would always tune in to watch famous people talk about their careers, how they handled scandals and mega fame. I'm trying to pick up tips.

People who don't like scandals shouldn't be in finance.

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is.

The rabbis of the Talmud opined that Saul failed as a leader because there were no scandals in his past, that he lacked skeletons in his closet to keep him wary. By that measure, our leaders of today are brilliantly qualified, but it seems to me that Saul's failure came from elsewhere. He failed because Samuel and David wounded him fatally, not only by their actions but by their presence, by their very nature and his.

1. Love through suffering. 2. Love through a bunch of problems, through scandals and hatred and anger. Love is the only rational phenomenon. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith.

there are two types of secrets. There are secrets of the mouth and secrets of the heart. Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you're barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable.

Most secrets are secrets of the mouth. Gossip shared and small scandals whispered. These secrets long to be let loose upon the world. A secret of the mouth is like a stone in your boot. At first you're barely aware of it. Then it grows irritating, then intolerable. Secrets of the mouth grow larger the longer you keep them, swelling until they press against your lips. They fight to be let free.