Corruption Quotes - Page 16

• Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.

  John Denham

  Ignorance, Light, Sight

  Sir John Denham (1751). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.108

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

  Menander

  War, Iron, Clothes

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• Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

  John Locke

  Moving, Together, Variables

  John Locke (1840*). “The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon”, p.132

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• My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place.

  Michael Horton

  Father, Heart, Sleep

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• As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Agency, Law

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Divinity is the elementary personality of a human being. When he can stand before corruption and win, that is an undivided personality. It is called divinity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Winning, Past, Personality

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• When you fight corruption, corruption strikes back and that is the truth because when you fight corruption, you get confidence and when it gets to impunity, then it gets aggressive and says, 'oh, so you think you are different? You think you are tough and different?' This is why some of us are almost permanently in the libel court.

  Wole Soyinka

  Fighting, Thinking, Different

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• Next to the commodities of corruption, and religion, however, Nigeria is the world capital of rumour mongering.

  Wole Soyinka

  Next, World, Commodity

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• When I was a child, for a public/civil servant to be caught in corrupt practices, that individual will be a pariah. He will be a complete reject of the society; he/she could not raise his or her voice to speak in the public. So what happened between that time and now? That time when a public officer, prison or customs officer caught in corruption hides his face in shame amongst his peers, he just couldn't come out publicly. Today, when they come back, they get chieftaincy titles, they are received in grand style, cows are killed, they ride on white horses.

  Wole Soyinka

  Horse, Children, Practice

  Source: saharareporters.com

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• To drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C., I started by impose ago five-year lobbying ban on white house officials, and a lifetime ban on lobbying for a foreign government.

  Donald Trump

  Government, Years, White

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The mistake we make with many people - not just Russia - is that we believe we have the model, and there is a sort of a condescension in our dialogue with other societies, which was especially painful in several administrations to Russia. I think in Russia, the Yeltsin period is not considered a period of great achievement, but a period of corruption and humiliation.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Mistake, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students are being trained to work in corporations. It's obscene to me that the corporations are running the world. We've got to get cross. Anger is an appropriate emotion.

  Helen Caldicott

  Running, Work, World

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• Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

  John Adams

  Christian, Religion, Pages

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.229

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• Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Progress

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• I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different way. There is a daytime Israel and a nighttime Israel. The first is self-confident, pushy and passionate, like other Mediterranean lands. It is hedonistic, materialistic and almost arrogant. During the nighttime, people are terrified, people are filled with existential dreads. These fears aren't baseless.

  Amos Oz

  Thinking, America, Israel

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Hillary Clinton machine.

  Donald Trump

  Together, Wikileaks, Machines

  "Trump on New Allegations". www.cnn.com. October 13, 2016.

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• If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Ifs

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.70, Modern Library

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• The culture of death is imposed by economic and political interests, the arrogance of power, corruption. I blame the first world for having taken our riches for so many years. I am speaking of the superpowers that dominate the life of the world. More concretely, the World Bank, the IMF. Those that have caused and tolerated the death of our people, those responsible for the plundering of the third world. Silence is also part of repression.

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Taken, Years, People

  Source: www.indians.org

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• Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Compassion, And Love

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• The claim that democracy and efficiency are contradictory is nonsense. That's evident in the history of democracy itself, because it is only democrats who were and continue to be capable of learning from mistakes. A more appropriate question is to ask whether a country like China, which has been so incredibly successful economically, is actually inefficient in light of its environmental destruction and its corruption. In China's perception, however, the democratic model is doubtlessly inferior.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Country, Mistake, Successful

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• The nation blest above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans and empty quacks.

  William James

  War, Party, Writing

  "Essays in Religion and Morality".

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• In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Ancient, Ancient Times, Perceive

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• Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

  Francine Rivers

  Gone, Salt, Emptiness

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.495, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

  Alfred de Musset

  Art, Blood, Water

  Alfred de Musset, Michael Feingold (1993). “Fantasio and other plays”

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