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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. -- Georges Bernanos
Corruption is a true enemy to development. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. -- Noam Chomsky
Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust. -- Robert Zoellick
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country. -- Karl Kraus
Corruption is the enemy of development, and of good governance. It must be got rid of. Both the government and the people at large must come together to achieve this national objective. -- Pratibha Patil
Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy. -- George Richard Marek
Corruption makes greatness rupture -- Constance Chuks Friday
Corruption never has been compulsory. -- Anthony Eden
Corruption is simply crime without conscience. -- George Richard Marek
Corruption hates what is not corrupt. -- Paul Park
Corruption is not a Canadian value! -- Stephen Harper
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. -- Kurt Cobain
Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance. -- George Richard Marek
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. -- Edward Gibbon
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. -- Edmund Burke
Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional' -- Paul Craig Roberts
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. -- Peter Ustinov
Time Is Speeding Up In Relation To Corruption. Hold On Tight. -- Dean Cavanagh
Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident. -- Walter Goodman
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. -- Imran Khan
Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market. -- Ha-Joon Chang
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. -- Milton Friedman
Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism. -- Dennis Prager
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. -- Anna Lindh
I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment. -- Nestor Kirchner
Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. -- John Steinbeck
Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue. -- Nguyen Tan Dung
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. -- William Shakespeare
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. -- Bill Gates
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. -- Mahatma Gandhi
People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third -- Atiku Abubakar
The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. -- Ali Khamenei
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. -- Robinson Jeffers
Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace. -- Bryant McGill
Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. -- William Shakespeare
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. -- James L. Buckley
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. -- John F. Kennedy
What's it like to be a living legend? A lot fucking better than being a dead oneGeordie Selwyn, Appetite for Corruption -- Hilary Mortz
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
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
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China]. -- Xi Jinping
Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions. -- Joseph Muscat
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. -- Ama Ata Aidoo
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
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
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. -- Bob Etheridge
In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing -- Joni Mitchell
Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth. -- Dr. John
Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one. -- Emma Goldman
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead. -- Philip James Bailey
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships. -- Lee R. Raymond
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. -- John Fletcher
In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. -- Djuna Barnes
Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. -- Ajay Devgan
Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress. -- Daniel Webster
Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable. -- Sergio Mattarella
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy. -- John Jay Hooker
When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one. -- Jonathan Swift
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. -- Tacitus
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism. -- Joe Biden
Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed. -- Paul Wolfowitz
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. -- A. K. Antony
We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier. -- Iqbal Quadir
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. -- Lisa Bonet
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power. -- Ted Nugent
For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. -- Bruce Springsteen
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins. -- Rahman Baba
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. -- Ray Davies
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. -- Saul Alinsky
A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties. -- Evgeny Morozov
We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. -- Xi Jinping
The Philippines is a country in which a man of morals can't be president, in which a politician who hasn't been linked to any wrongdoing isn't assumed to be honest, but merely better at hiding his corruption. -- Raymond Bonner
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will. -- Alexander Herzen
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. -- Atifete Jahjaga
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. -- Andrew Jackson
I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few. -- Shashi Tharoor
For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs. -- Ai Weiwei
We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.' -- Ramez Naam
the corruption of the best is the worst ... -- Maude Royden
Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption. -- Joe Biden
Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978. -- Newt Gingrich
Reject every form of corruption. -- Pope Francis
Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens
Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption. -- Julian Assange
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Purity without balance is its own corruption. -- V. E. Schwab
Hillary Clinton embodies the corruption of Washington. -- Ted Cruz
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed -- Gordon Clark
When you fight corruption, it fights back. -- Nuhu Ribadu
I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal. -- Vladimir Putin
Salaries are a huge area of corruption. -- Ashraf Ghani
All my life I have fought corruption. -- A. K. Antony
Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city. -- Arvind Kejriwal
Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption -- James Madison
Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. -- Vladimir Putin
The bigger the government, the greater the corruption -- Dennis Prager
No government functions without the grease of corruption. -- Carlos Fuentes
Let's fight against corruption for a better India -- Rahul Gandhi
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. -- K. Hari Kumar
Not just charity, even corruption begins at home. -- K. Hari Kumar
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. -- Ben Nicholson
We now have a national reputation for corruption. -- Chris Redfern
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. -- H. L. Mencken
Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret. -- Dana Rosemary Scallon
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality. -- Lord Acton
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots. -- King Felipe VI
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction. -- Charlotte Lennox
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. -- Adlai E. Stevenson

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