Corruption Quotes - Page 34

• The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in a high degree of tension with impulses toward corruption, toward violence, toward all sorts of things. The Dalai Lama himself would say that he has to fight these impulses himself on a daily basis.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Fighting, Ideas

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.

  Alex Gibney

  Sex, Police, Catholic

  Source: deadline.com

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• The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

  William James

  Desire, Gains, Wealth

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.368, Courier Corporation

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• The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Two, Trying, Notable

  "Elizabeth Costello". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2003.

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• 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

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Certainly, if we believe in democracy and democratic systems, when [Benazir Bhutto] failed to pass any legislation, really, at all in her first two years in government during her first term and in fact had a tenure that was marked not only by gross corruption but by human rights abuses, that should have been a time for people to say, "Well, OK, we've given you an opportunity and you haven't bettered the institutions, you haven't strengthened the democratic cause - we may not vote you back."

  Fatima Bhutto

  Believe, Opportunity, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Pay The Price, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Party, Hands, Knowing

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.178, Cambridge University Press

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• When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Spiritual, Character, People

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• When we talk about corruption, there's corruption on both sides of the border. That's what I think is interesting. I'm from Mexico, so when I see a Mexican portrayed in the American market on TV or films, you better do it right because you won't fool me. I'm sure no one really cares on this side of the border, if they get it right or not, but all the way from Mexico, to another 120 countries where the show goes, they will be able to tell the difference.

  Demian Bichir

  Country, Thinking, Differences

  Source: collider.com

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• Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Determination, Jobs, Would Be

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• Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

  Warren Murphy

  Book, Writing, Careers

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• The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. ... In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Understanding, Affection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.18, Рипол Классик

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• 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

  Illumination, Diving, Searching For Love

  Song: Black Crow, Album: Hejira, 1976

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• The president's attempted diktat takes money from bondholders and gives it a labor union that delivers money and votes for him.... Shaking down lenders for the benefit of political donors is recycled corruption and the abuse of power.

  Cliff Asness

  Giving, Political, Abuse

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• How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

  Philip Roth

  Sex, Matter, Parts Of Life

  Philip Roth (2000). “The Human Stain: A Novel”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

  Chris Packham

  Sick, Betrayed, Crushed

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• Capitalism, the ogre of those protesting Wall Street, has suffered a public relations crisis in the wake of the global economic collapse. But any remedy to the systemic corruption that led to the collapse should not displace recognition that capitalism creates wealth. Capitalism, and no other economic system, has raised millions from poverty around the world.

  Kathleen Parker

  Wall, World, Poverty

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• The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Greed, Arrogance

  Theodore Roosevelt (1952). “The big stick, 1905-1907”

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• When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Degradation, Spirals, Results

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• I think what you've got are millions of people who are in trouble today. They really are. They're confused. They're working longer hours for lower wages. They're seeing productivity going up but their kids are worse off economically than they are. They're looking at a campaign finance system in politics and they see corruption, big money buying elections. Nobody in Congress is listening to them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Confused, Kids, Thinking

  "Sanders: Muslims Are Not Your Enemy And Progressive Values Are The Answer". www.realclearpolitics.com. December 9, 2015.

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• No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.

  Doug Casey

  Kids, Light, Years

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

  Ian Bremmer

  Mean, Growth, Waste

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• Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs.

  Narendra Modi

  Jobs, Government, People

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• We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

  Narendra Modi

  Fighting, Schemes, Organize

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