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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."
43
"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."
37
"I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve."
27
"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
24
"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
20
"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
11
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
6
"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
5
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
4
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
4
"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."
3
"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."
3
"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."
2
"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."
2
"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
2
"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."
2
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
2
"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."
2
"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."
2
"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
2
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
2
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
2
"Every evil we see in our society today can be traced back to ignorance."
2
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
2
"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
2
"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."
2
"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
2
"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."
2
"The biggest criminals that I have met in life are working for the government. They make mass murderers look like amateurs."
1
"Political corruption works by having an equally corrupt legal system to protect it."
1
"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
1
"Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable."
1
"I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption"
1
"Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud."
1
"USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation."
1
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."
1
"Obviously, a lot of people involved with Volkswagen's emissions were aware of the diesel car software cheat. One has to wonder how many of them tried to stop it and perhaps were demoted or lost their jobs over trying to prevent the secret Volkswagen car emissions fraud?"
1
"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."
1
"When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people."
1
"You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption."
1
"If corruption had already taken root, then good seeds must be preserved."
1
"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."
1
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
1
"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."
1
"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."
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