Corruption Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The thing I love so much about the UN, is that they're so obviously corrupt. It's not like the Oil-for-Food scandal was even hard to discover, it was almost a parody of corruption. The behavior of the delegates in New York is comically corrupt as well. The amazing thing is that there are still people who want to give the UN MORE power, and to become a real world government... Sigh

  John Hamill

  New York, Real, Oil

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• Some blame the drug companies. I don't. They are corporations. Their managers are ordered by law to make money for the corporation. They push a certain patent policy not because of ideals,but because it is the policy that makes them the most money. And it only makes them the most money because of a certain corruption within our political system-a corruption the drug companies are certainly not responsible for. The corruption is our own politicians' failure of integrity.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Integrity, Law, Political

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.191, Penguin

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• But he alone having reached our deep corruption, he alone having taken upon himself our labors, he alone having suffered the punishments due for our impieties, having recovered us who were not half dead merely, but were already in tombs and sepulchers, and altogether foul and offensive, saves us, both anciently and now, by his beneficent zeal, beyond the expectation of any one, even of ourselves, and imparts liberally of the Father's benefits-he who is the giver of life and light, our great Physician and King and Lord, the Christ of God.

  Eusebius

  Kings, Father, Taken

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• Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.

  J. C. Ryle

  Views, Holiness, Humans

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

  Ueda Akinari

  Heart, Water, Tea

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• For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

  Fawzia Koofi

  Long, People, Desire

  "Will Fawzia Koofi Be Afghanistan's First Female President?" by Fawzia Koofi, www.thedailybeast.com. January 6, 2012.

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• In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, Class, Cities

  Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

  Warren Jeffs

  Prayer, Race, Rocks

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• The crimes of extreme civilization are probably worse than those of extreme barbarism, because of their refinement, the corruption they presuppose, and their superior degree of intellectuality.

  Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

  Civilization, Degrees, Crime

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• I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

  Gilbert Highet

  Believe, Ignorance, Our Society

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

  Cyril Connolly

  Civilization, Luxury, Goal

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• Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Roles, Assuming, Hiding

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Government, President, Done

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• In 'Tarahumara' land, there was no crime, war or theft. There was no corruption, obesity, drug addiction, greed, wife-beating, child abuse, heart disease, high blood pressure, or carbon emissions. They didn't get diabetes, or depressed, or even old: 50-year-olds outran teenagers.

  Christopher McDougall

  Children, War, Teenager

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.14, Profile Books

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