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There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much.

— John Wooden

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

— Alfred Nobel

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

— Andrew Jackson

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

— Demian Bichir

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

— Willem Dafoe

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

— Edward Brooke

✗Opposing Perspectives

No public man can be just a little crooked.

— Herbert Hoover

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

— Richard J. Needham