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Corruption Quotes
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
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"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem."
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"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."
55
"For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian."
53
"I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve."
44
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
40
"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
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"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
19
"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
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"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
11
"Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. "I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power? How is he using it? And how can it be taken off the sonofabitch?"
11
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
11
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
11
"Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed. Simply put, it lacks values, and such a system will eventually collapse once its true light is discovered by the masses. Though some say that capitalism is a modern system, corruption has been the source for the demise of every great civilization."
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"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
10
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
8
"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."
8
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
8
"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
8
"A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem."
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"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
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"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."
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"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
7
"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
7
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
7
"It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats."
6
"The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions."
6
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
6
"As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process."
5
"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."
5
"I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia."
5
"I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process."
5
"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
5
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
5
"The real purpose of the opposition is to minimize the amount of money the ruling party will have stolen from the people at the end of its term."
4
"Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty."
4
"We have taken decisive steps to curb corruption. We removed discretion in allocation of key resources and moved to transparent auctions of mines, spectrum and FM radio licenses. We have plugged leakages through DBT."
4
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given."
4
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
4
"Every evil we see in our society today can be traced back to ignorance."
4
"Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar."
4
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
4
"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
4
"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."
3
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
3
"Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it."
3
"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
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