Quotes with corruption

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  • Tacitus In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Alan Greenspan In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
    The Age of Turbulence (2008) p.275
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Bernard Paine It must recognize and hold up before men the moral character of this corruption of the ballot. Bribery is a sin. It is condemned in the laws of Moses: And thou shalt take no gift; for a gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. These words are as true to-day as when they were written.
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  • Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
    Saul Alinsky
    American community organizer and writer (1909 - 1972)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Lying and corruption are in the Iranian society in all sense of the world, and if you do research about married women, you see that a lot of them tell you they get a lot of enjoyment from breaking the rules of corruption, because just for the fact that they break the rules, it makes them oppose the system.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Jacob Bronowski No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
    Jacob Bronowski
    British Scientist, Author (1908 - 1974)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury 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.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Benigno Aquino III Part of my mandate is to curb corruption and streamline a cumbersome, graft-ridden bureaucracy, to put resources where they will provide the clearest results, and to untangle a complicated regulatory environment.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • James Thomson Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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  • Ajay Devgan Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.
    Ajay Devgan
    Indian film actor and director (1969 - )
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  • Anna Lindh Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Bess Myerson The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Ben Nicholson The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Al Sharpton The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
    Al Sharpton
    American civil rights activist, Baptist minister and talk show host (1954 - )
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  • Kurt Cobain The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. IV, THE LOGIC OF REBELLION, p. 138
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Georges Bernanos The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Albert Einstein The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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