Illicit Quotes

“The CID official said to the Russians, “I didn’t know contractors worked on weekends. Why are you two here today?”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“Aha, Yury, I wonder if they are getting more US military. I am very anxious to get the recording. We want to know what is taking place between these Americans and Iraqis.”
― Karl Braungart, Counter Identity

“  “What’s puzzling is the sender wrote, ‘I hope this is helpful for the Tariq’Allah office in Istanbul. Stay in touch.’ Turkey does not speak Arabic. Someone wrote this cover page in Arabic.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“I had a separate meeting with Directors Montgomery and Black. We discussed terrorists infiltrating the country. As you know, there are ten scientists from the Middle East taking part in the biotechnology project. I don’t want to take any chances about one or more of them being part of a terrorist group. We don’t need this lab center and people incinerated.”
― Karl Braungart, Fatal Identity

“A person who is another man's slave is better than one who is a slave to lust.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Love is love, even if it is illicit; like light remains light even in the darkness.”
― Munia Khan

“I’ve been to places in this world that make hell seem like a tropical paradise.” ”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Catch .22

“He signed up to eliminate madmen and terrorists, not to orphan children to obtain political leverage.”
― Diane L. Kowalyshyn, Catch .22

“It is illicit to exhibit a deficit habit toward those at the limit of their spirit.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“Mossfon subscribed to a Google-like paid search service called World-Check to help identify PEPs ["politically exposed person"] and criminals. It also, not for the first time, sent a letter to its professional clients requesting that they conduct a customer review. There was little follow-up. It was a question of incentives. When scandals sporadically came to light, they always seemed to resolve themselves without undue harm to the firm. Meanwhile, business was booming. In 2005, the firm tripled the number of shell companies it created on behalf of banks. By the end of the year, Mossfon had more than seventy thousand active companies. To do the necessary due diligence on all of them would have been prohibitively expensive, and sometimes impossible. In a business predicated on secrecy, no one wanted to produce the information.”
― Jake Bernstein, Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite

“The word courses through me ̶ a lover’s poison ̶ and I feel dizzy with exhilaration.”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Alexander and Maria

“The rest of the people depended on their gardens and the occupier's paltry rations. Everything else, the army took for itself. The young soldiers looked ruddy and pale, while the middle commanders developed paunches from too much local Camembert. The villagers grew gaunt meanwhile. The women's breasts losing fullness. The men's arms hanging flaccid. Emma's solution was to bake illicit bread.”
― Stephen P. Kiernan, The Baker's Secret