Corruption Quotes - Page 28

• How horribly rapid everything has been, from the days when men were not ashamed to talk of souls and of suffering and of hope to these low days of smiles that will never again be sly enough to hide the knowledge of betrayal and deceit.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Betrayal, Men, Soul

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.62, Heinemann

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• Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

  Samora Machel

  Discipline, Relaxation, Laziness

  Samora Machel (1975). “The Tasks Ahead: Selected Speeches of Samora Moises Machel”

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• A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

  John Grant

  Insult, Fraud, Forgery

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• Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.

  Soong May-ling

  Country, Progress, Politics

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• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Happiness, Thinking, Community Living

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• Brazil has a lot of issues that are similar to a lot of countries in Latin America, but the dominant issue Brazil is dealing with is poverty and political corruption.

  Morena Baccarin

  Country, Latin, America

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

  Tammy Bruce

  Party, People, Political

  "Why Tea Party women lead the charge" by Tammy Bruce, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2010.

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• The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.

  Ahmed Chalabi

  Successful, Fighting, Firsts

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• Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

  Aravind Adiga

  Men, People, Worry

  "Indians' worst fear: the honest politician". www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2008.

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• Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

  P. Chidambaram

  Past, Thinking, Self

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• The inherent corruption of man can often bring down the best system.

  Alexis Denisof

  Men, Inherent

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• The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Party, Tired

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• When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response is a horse-laugh. When an accused politician explains that a charge of corruption is 'really' an attack on his or her race, religion, ethnic background or gender, the odds that something felonious happened jumps.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Horse, Race, Odds

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• It could plausibly be argued that far from Christian theology having hampered the study of nature for fifteen hundred years, it was Greek corruptions of biblical Christianity which hampered it.

  Mary Hesse

  Christian, Biblical, Years

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• The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is the reason why the Palestinian people chose Hamas. However, there is no doubt that the corruption helped Hamas's victory.

  Ismail Haniyeh

  People, Doubt, Victory

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• The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and the generalized state of exception have constructed a figure prey to fear and yearning for protection—the securitized. And the corruption of democracy has forged a strange, depoliticized figure, the represented. These subjective figures constitute the social terrain on which—and against which—movements of resistance and rebellion must act.

  Michael Hardt

  Communication, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

  Rafael Benitez

  Things In Life, Ifs

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• I cite a good example, say, of agriculture, .. In agriculture we need to move with speed to bring to full utilization the land that is now in our possession. We need to curb aspects of corruption that are endemic in the economy. We need to be transparent in everything that we do. We need to be consistent in implementing the policies we would have agreed. And not implement policies one day and reverse them the other day.

  Gideon Gono

  Moving, Land, Agriculture

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• There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Disappointment, Choices, Pockets

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• 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

  Taxes, Consumers

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• If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.

  Will Rogers

  America, Evil, Temptation

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.63, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.

  Will Rogers

  People, Political, Awful

  Will Rogers (1981). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Coolidge Years, 1927-1929”

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• Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!

  John Vianney

  Attachment, Soul, Body

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• In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny.

  Samuel Adams

  Art, War, Luxury

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• Humility is the situation of the earth. It's there silent and accepting everything and in a miraculous way making out of all the refuse new richness...transforming corruption itself into a power of life and a new possibility of creativeness, open to the sunshine, open to the rain, ready to receive any seed we sow and capable of bringing thirtyfold, sixtyfold, a hundredfold out of every seed.

  Anthony of Sourozh

  Rain, Humility, Sunshine

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