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• The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

  Tacitus

  Peace, Freedom, War

  "Annals". Book by Tacitus, Book III, 27,

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• Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Revolution, Vote

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, War, Power

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• The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

  Bess Myerson

  Moral Corruption, Indifference, Crime

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• Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

  Wes Fesler

  Integrity, Hypocrisy, Audacity

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• A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

  Horace

  Judging, Doe

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, pp. 411-412, ("Satires", Book II. 2. 8), 1922.

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  A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Fall, Government, Mind Your Own Business

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• The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

  David Hume

  Philosophical, Giving, Worst

  David Hume (1957). “The Natural History of Religion”, p.51, Stanford University Press

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• When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Want

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

  John Steinbeck

  Fear, Loss, Power

  "The Short Reign of Pippin IV". Book by John Steinbeck, p. 102, 1957.

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• When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will

  William Shakespeare

  Needs, May, Poverty

  William Shakespeare, William Harness, William Gilmore Simms (1842). “The Complete Works of William Shakspeare”, p.140

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• Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

  Imran Khan

  Thinking, Problem, Think Big

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  It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

  George MacDonald

  Power, Men, People

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• There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Political, Done, Corporations

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Law, President

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

  Harry Markopolos

  Sight, Views, Cockroaches

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• It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Fishes

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• When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

  Barry White

  Truth, Hypocrisy, Saws

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself.

  Bob Geldof

  Spring, War, Trying

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• When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Men, Quality, Entering

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• When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Guilt, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

  Alessandro Manzoni

  Heart, Men, Rights

  Alessandro Manzoni (1983). “The Betrothed”, p.54, Penguin UK

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• There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Eye, Color

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.71, Rowman & Littlefield

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