Corruption Quotes - Page 37

• The work to eradicate corruption must begin from the top. It is spread like termite in our country. We have to work at all levels to eradicate corruption

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Levels, Spread

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• Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, India, I Can

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• Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, People, Giving

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• Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

  Bill Gates

  Views, Common, Reason

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• I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Husband, Angel, Impossible

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• When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but the high-up hills are purely for the soul.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Cities, Soul

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Galloway”, p.177, Bantam

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• I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.

  Antonin Kratochvil

  Suicide, Country, Lying

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• Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Political, Machines

  John F. Kennedy (1964). “Profiles In Courage”

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• The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Religious, Mistake

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• I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.

  Patrick McHenry

  Thinking, Philadelphia, Judging

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• Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Love, Daughter, Hate

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• The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe, which serve to support tyrannical governments, are not the Christian religion, but abuses and corruptions of it. The religion of Christ and his apostles, in it primitive simplicity and purity, unencumbered with the trappings of power and the pomp of ceremonies, is the surest basis of a republican government.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Government, Europe

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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• A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Support, Republic

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2014). “The Federalist Papers”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

  Albert Einstein

  Praise

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• People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
  even our first or second problem, maybe the third

  Atiku Abubakar

  People, Firsts, Problem

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• Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

  John Derbyshire

  Lying, Sea, Rolling

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• In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules ... but it's impossible for a violation to go undetected, certainly not for a considerable period of time.

  Bernard Madoff

  Scandal, Today, Impossible

  "15 Most Loathsome People of 2008". Article by Allan Uthman, Ian Murphy, www.alternet.org. January 30, 2009.

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• There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.

  Douglas Gresham

  Uncles, Real, Our World

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• Good movies make you care, make you believe in possibilities again. If somewhere in the Hollywood-entertainment world someone has managed to break through with something that speaks to you, then it isn’t all corruption. The movie doesn’t have to be great; it can be stupid and empty and you can still have the joy of a good performance, or the joy in just a good line. An actor’s scowl, a small subversive gesture, a dirty remark that someone tosses off with a mock-innocent face, and the world makes a little bit of sense.

  Pauline Kael

  Stupid, Believe, Dirty

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Real, Racism, Mind

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• Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter and in flesh the least of the values, for these are things that hold death and must pass away. Discover in all things that which shines and is beyond corruption. Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.

  William Saroyan

  Heart, Shining, Sorrow

  Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Coe Howard, DuBose Heyward, Elmer Rice (1988). “Famous American plays of the 1920s and the 1930s”

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• Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

  David Cameron

  Cancer, Heart, Enemy Of Progress

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• In North America, people get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else.

  Jennifer Beals

  Thinking, America, Government

  Source: collider.com

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• Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.

  Russell Crowe

  Children, Men, Judging

  "American Gangster, The Russell Crowe Interview: On Jail, Justice And Jive Talk To Babes On The Weight Of A Man". Interview with Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. October 29, 2007.

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• Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, Honesty, Winning

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 3, sc. 2, l. 441

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