Corruption Quotes
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Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.
Albert Einstein -
As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.
Vaclav Havel
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Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture
Uzodinma Iweala -
God is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
William Gurnall -
There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.
Sepp Blatter -
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.
Susanne Langer -
There's a sense that there is a culture of cronyism and corruption and incompetence
Norman Ornstein
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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 Nazareth -
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".
William Shakespeare -
The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.
William Falconer -
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos -
It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head.
Joseph Wambaugh -
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.
Bernard Bailyn
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Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.
Bertha Knight Landes -
The spirit of party opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
George Washington -
To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself. And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour. He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now. He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from.
Nuhu Ribadu -
Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador -
The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
Iain Pears
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Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
William Shakespeare -
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.
Bernard Bailyn -
Well, I do write on political and social issues and the idea that one shouldn't - or the idea that we should censor ourselves - doesn't really work for me because it would be doing the government's job for them. And I'm not interested in doing that. I think what we need very much in Pakistan is to be able to discuss the corruption and the violence that really colours most of our life here.
Fatima Bhutto -
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