Corruption Quotes - Page 19

• All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

  Bill Vaughan

  Spiritual, Children, Compassion

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• I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.

  David Morrissey

  Thinking, Ideas, Interesting

  "Interview: ‘Walking Dead’ star David Morrissey discusses The Governor". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 28, 2012.

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• Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

  Hillary Clinton

  Research, Behavior, Ethical

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• Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

  James Madison

  Ignorance, Religious Truth, Founding Fathers Religion

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.90, University of Virginia Press

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• Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

  Edward Gibbon

  History, Catholic, Church

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.39

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• Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the citizens of Antioch. The arts of luxury were honoured; the serious and manly virtues were the subject of ridicule; and the contempt for female modesty and reverent age announced the universal corruption of the capital of the East.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Art, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1860). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.174

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• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

  Donald Trump

  Pennies, Stolen, Billions

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2013

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• When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.

  Narendra Modi

  Focus, Democracy, India

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• 2014 Lok Sabha Elections is a battle between good governance agenda of the NDA versus the misgovernance and corruption of the UPA.

  Narendra Modi

  Democracy, Battle, India

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• From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

  Narendra Modi

  Promise, India, Politics

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• Congress Mukt Bharat BJP ka naara nahi hai, jan jan ka sankalp hai. Be it dynasty politics, nepotism, corruption, communalism, divisions in society or poverty, getting freedom from all this is what I mean by a Congress Mukt Bharat.

  Narendra Modi

  Mean, Bjp, Poverty

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• 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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• There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'

  Jon Anderson

  America, People, World

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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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• The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

  Terry Eagleton

  Believe, Government, Cabinets

  Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.40, Verso

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• What wouldst thou do, old man?
  Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak
  When power to flattery bows?

  William Shakespeare

  Fear, Men, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.387

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• The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?

  Patrick Michaels

  Research, Climate, United States

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• In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.

  Noam Chomsky

  Children, Spring, Blow

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

  Nikki Sixx

  Viruses, Information, Birth

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.533, Simon and Schuster

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• Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please Him. They must dare to allow the Holy Spirit to point out to them every corruption of the soul life. They must exercise faith in believing God's estimation of their natural life and must wait patiently for the Holy Spirit to reveal in them what the Bible says of them. Only in this manner will they be led in the way of deliverance.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Believe, Exercise

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• Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, Broken, Greed

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