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Corruption Quotes
"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem."
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"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."
199
"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."
194
"I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve."
188
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
178
"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
170
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
127
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
85
"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."
81
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
77
"In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder."
71
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
70
"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
68
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
67
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
65
"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly."
64
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
64
"If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved."
63
"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
63
"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."
61
"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
61
"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."
61
"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."
60
"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
60
"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."
60
"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."
59
"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
59
"Every evil we see in our society today can be traced back to ignorance."
58
"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."
57
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
56
"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."
55
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
54
"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?"
54
"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."
53
"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."
53
"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."
51
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
51
"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
50
"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."
49
"All they do is warm their seats for their long tenures and eventually even their seats get dilapidated with the amount of money they hog in illegally and the only way it comes out is by tilting their huge pot-bellied frames to one side and emitting poisonous gases that not only depreciate their beloved seats but also the nation as a whole and then they shout 'Global Warming.' Hallelujah!"
49
"They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil."
47
"A donation to the police officer's back pocket should have you on your way without a problem."
47
"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."
45
"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
40
"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
39
"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."
39
"THAT'S WHAT POWERFUL MEN DO TO THIS COUNTRY - IT'S A BEAUTIFUL, SEXY, BREATHLESS COUNTRY, AND POWERFUL MEN USE IT TO TREAT THEMSELVES TO A THRILL! THEY SAY THEY LOVE IT BUT THEY DON'T MEAN IT. THEY SAY THINGS TO MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR GOOD - THEY MAKE THEMSELVES APPEAR MORAL...THE COUNTRY WANTS A SAVIOUR. THE COUNTRY IS A SUCKER FOR POWERFUL MEN WHO LOOK GOOD. WE THINK THEY'RE MORALISTS AND THEN THEY JUST USE US."
39
"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."
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