„There is no one who ever acts honestly in the administration of states, nor any helper who will save any one who maintains the cause of the just.“

— Platón
„I do not open up the truth to one who is not eager to get knowledge, nor help out any one who is not anxious to explain himself.“
— Confucius
„Of course we must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„All these present struggles revolve around the question: Who are we? They are a refusal of these abstractions, of economic and ideological state violence, which ignore who we are individually, and also a refusal of a scientific or administrative inquisition which determines who one is.“
— Michel Foucault