Sarah Chayes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Sarah Chayes

#Opportunity #Corruption #Facts Of Life
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.
-- Sarah Chayes

#Country #Brother #Gun
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

#Thinking #Humanity #Vision

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.
Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.
Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption â€“ it corrupts valuable time
Salaries are a huge area of corruption.
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.

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