"Society no longer tolerates politicians who steal in the name of getting things done," says Mailson da Nóbrega, a former finance minister.So why is corruption seemingly still so pervasive?
"Martin Luther King did not live and die that we may steal in the name of justice in the middle of the night," he said.
Indian legislation would be well advised to make this distinction between desire and crime, one that was so blurred for an empire that was happy to criminalise the harmless while it plundered and stole, all in the name of piety and righteousness.
The government says he is an imposter, a Chinese immigrant who reached back in time to steal the name of a real New Yorker born in 1927, Havelock Woo, and then used that name to perpetrate a fraud on the United States government with the goal of bringing his relatives from China.
"I actually stole from it for In The Name of the Father".
I also know that major league batters would bunt on him and steal second base, all in the name of competition.
He discovered that his holding companies had been stolen from him and re-registered in the name of a convicted murderer in a provincial city.
Elsewhere in Baghdad and in southern Iraq, their raiding parties with pickaxes have routed gypsy families by the hundreds, stolen their cars and cash savings in the name of the Shia's religious authority, the Hawza, and reduced their homes to rubble.
The book's strength is its riveting portrait of Gurlitt, who detested the Nazis, and stole from them, but did their bidding in the name of "saving modern art".
"Christian families have been expelled from their houses and their valuables were stolen and...their houses and property expropriated in the name of the Islamic State".
