Corruption Quotes - Page 22

• Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

  Faraaz Kazi

  Selfish, Today, Politician

  Faraaz Kazi (2012). “Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!”, p.171, Faraaz Kazi

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• Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Fighting, Night, Affair

  "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair" by Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  World

  "Nigeria's Olusegun Obasanjo: Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair" by Peter Guest, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

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• Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with a gesture of profundity questions grow out of confrontation with the subject matter and the subject matter is there only where eyes are, it is in this manner that questions will be posed and all the more considering that questions that have today fallen out of fashion in the great industry of problems. One stands up for nothing more than the normal running of the industry. Philosophy interprets its corruption as the resurrection of metaphysics.

  Martin Heidegger

  Running, Fashion, Philosophy

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• Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Relation, Speeding, Speeding Up

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• To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

  Barack Obama

  Mutual Interest, Hands, Way Forward

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

  Marquis de Sade

  Would Be, Causes, Chaos

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• For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an "electocracy" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Mean, Two

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.317, Canongate Books

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• Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

  Robert Penn Warren

  Kings, Men, Sin

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief. Our character dulls and tarnishes. We meet with guilt. We know, we know: the price of living is corruption. There isn’t as much light as there once was. In the grave we lapse back into undifferentiated sameness

  Gregory Maguire

  Grief, Dirty, Character

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “A Lion Among Men: Volume Three in The Wicked Years”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson...

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Real, World Government

  "F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, 1928-1945" edited by Elliott Roosevelt, New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (p. 373), 1950.

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

  David Baldacci

  Long, Humans, Absolutely Nothing

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Winner”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Betrayal, Pain, Lying

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• My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Track, Scandal, Kind

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• Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Metamorphosis, States

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 19. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th edition", 1919.

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• Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.

  Philip Gourevitch

  Home, People, Political

  "Can You Forgive Him?" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. September 2, 2002.

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• Now, because men of our contemporary age are caught up in the ascetic view of a life-denying religious system, but in spite of this cannot deny the primal laws of nature, a distorted morality had to be developed, which spreads hypocritical appearances over hidden actions. This has brought to a head all those outward forms of modern life, whose vacuousness and corruption are now beginning to disgust us.

  Guido von List

  Life, Religious, Nature

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• Banks and churches and courtrooms all depend on the appurtenances of theatre. On illusion. Banks, the illusion of stability and honourable dealings to the rot and corruption of capitalist exploitation. Churches the illusion of sacred sanctuary of purposes of pacifying social discontent. Courtrooms of course designed to promote the illusion of solemn justice. If there was true justice why would such trappings be necessary? Wouldn't a table and chairs and an ordinary room serve just as well?

  E. L. Doctorow

  Tables And Chairs, Justice, Church

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• My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

  Charles Baxter

  Literature, Notion

  Charles Baxter (1997). “Believers: A Novella and Stories”, Pantheon

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• Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Light, Injustice, Power Of Love

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• We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Affliction, Levels, May

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• We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

  Muhammadu Buhari

  Economy

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• Spread and participate in culture. Remix, reuse, use, abuse. Make sure no one controls your mind. Create new systems and technology that circumvent the corruption. Start a religion. Start your own nation, or buy one. Buy a bus. Crush it to pieces.

  Peter Sunde

  Crush, Technology, Abuse

  "Maintain. Hardline. Kopimi". blog.brokep.com. February 1, 2012.

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• Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.

  David Dudley Field II

  Reality, Men, Names

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• Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.

  John Ringo

  Islamic, Thinking, Chinese

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