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Corruption Quotes
"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."
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"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."
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"Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them."
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"The Afghan government is as corrupt as a prostitute with a law degree."
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"This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul."
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"It is unreasonable for the common people to expect a known corrupt legal system to protect them."
30
"The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost."
30
"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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"The grandeur of the thieving falsity is larceny, the fall of cities."
25
"You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption."
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"To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself."
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"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."
21
"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on."
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
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"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?"
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"This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only a genius like Agassiz who dares to say, 'I cannot waste my time in getting rich,'" said Mrs. Jessie sadly."
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"I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption"
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"I have been through the OSHA system twice and I can confirm that I did not have the right to a safe workplace or whistle-blower protection on either occasion."
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"Corruption free" will truly be in a future impossible tense because many people re-elect unscrupulous politicians!In the end because of blind immunity to reality and impunity of "justified" corruptions in the government, it is always the hard working, suffering, struggling, less privileged citizens who are all the sacrificial lamb in times of disaster and calamities through their well catered embezzlement system."
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"Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will."
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"Politicians are not afraid of their mistakes, they are afraid their mistakes will not succeed."
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"It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with."
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"Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would he not suddenly sink into the earth, leaving a barren and blasted spot, where, in due course of time, would be seen deadly nightshade, dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness the climate could produce, all flourishing with hideous luxuriance?"
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"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."
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"There's pearl of the orient seas but it happens to be also a pearl of orient corruptions."
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"And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests."
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"It always starts out that way," Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. "Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night."
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"A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations."
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"Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable."
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"Law enforcement are the facilitators of corporate fraud."
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"The greatest thieves are not caught. Not because it's not known that they are thieves but because you cannot accuse them of robbery and live. These thieves are praised as national heroes and liberators or as successful entrepreneurs."
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"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
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"It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed."
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"If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws."
15
"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."
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"Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics, nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed."
14
"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."
14
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying."
14
"Working for OSHA is a horrible job to have. You have to ignore the whistle blowers and send them illegal letters saying that you cannot find any problems. I have a lot of those fraudulent letters, as I have been through OSHA twice. Once as the utility company employee and once as the utility company subcontractor employee. It is a disgusting & blatently corrupt system."
14
"Pure honesty" is dead in a jungle of eternal, bloody impunity, rampant corruption and dirty politics."
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"The devil would be powerless if he couldn't entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between brothers."
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"The USA legal system is designed to enrich lawyers, protect the government and corporations, and shaft the general public."
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"Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?"
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"USA corporations are legally regulated by laws which their managers know are rarely enforced. This criminal activity is what the USA government calls: Deregulation."
13
"When interacting with corporate government agents, always assume that they are corrupt until proven otherwise."
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"Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses."
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