Corruption Quotes - Page 10

• The impious man, who sells his country's freedom
  Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own.
  His are her slaughters, her oppressions his;
  Just heav'n! reserve your choicest plagues for him,
  And blast the venal wretch.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Men, Guilt

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• The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

  Narendra Modi

  India, Way, Progressive

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• People power must be combined with good governance to bring about real, deep and lasting change. This combination can achieve almost everything from eliminating corruption to ending malnutrition and illiteracy.

  Narendra Modi

  Real, Lasting Change, People

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• While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Decision, India

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• Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force against an idea, to submit thought to an alien "other." But worst still, censorship destroys criticism, which is the essential ingredient of culture.

  Pablo Antonio Cuadra

  School, Ideas, Criticism

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• Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Enemy, Constitution

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• Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

  Aruna Roy

  Taken, Action, Transparency

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• The consequences of inflation are malinvestment, waste, a wanton redistribution of wealth and income, the growth of speculation and gambling, immorality and corruption, disillusionment, social resentment, discontent, upheaval and riots, bankruptcy, increased government controls, and eventual collapse.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Gambling, Government, Growth

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.136, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• Realism is a corruption of reality.

  Wallace Stevens

  Reality, Realism

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• Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

  K Hari Kumar

  Home, Charity

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• REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

  Pope Francis

  Poor, Form, Resources

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• The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

  Vishal Mangalwadi

  Giving, Political, Force

  Vishal Mangalwadi (2012). “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

  John Hamill

  Thinking, Politics, Good Intentions

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• Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

  Evan Esar

  Officials

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• My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).

  Lawrence Lessig

  Issues, People, Moral

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• Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Political, Interest

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.8, Crown

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• If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

  Pauline Kael

  Innocence, Ifs

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• The war industries in many countries and the enormous trade in weapons of all kinds generate corruption and fuel conflict throughout the world. The existence of an immensely powerful military-industrial complex constitutes a danger to democracy, both internationally and domestically, because it follows its own logic and operates independently of popular participation.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, Powerful, Military

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Government, Degrees, Incapable

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.169, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Blue, Sky

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.361, Delphi Classics

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• In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Weakness, Wickedness

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.156

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• The corruption of the good by the belief in their own infallible goodnes is the most bloody dangerous pitfall in the human spectrum. Once you have conquered all your sins, pride is the one which will conquer you. A man starts off deciding he is a good man because he makes good decisions. Next thing, he's convinced that whatever decision he makes must be good because he's a good man. Most of the wars in the world are caused by people who think they have god on their side. Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous.

  Helen Fielding

  War, Pride, Men

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• Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

  James Patterson

  Country, Law, People

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• Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured.

  Desmond Tutu

  Suicide, Military, Land

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land". www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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