Corruption Quotes - Page 9

• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Our Society, Society Today, Corny

  Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigeria. President (1999-2007 : Obasanjo) (2007). “Standing tall 2”

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• As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

  Margaret Carlson

  Block, Joy, Half

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• I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Country, Want, Return

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• For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Fighting, Artist, Purpose

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• The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

  James L. Buckley

  Media, Campaigns, Vote

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

  Richard J. Needham

  Looks, World, Magnificence

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• Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Christian, Innocence, Sin

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

  Kelly Preston

  Kids, Drug, World

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• The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Power, Men, Atheism

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• Lokpal Bill alone is not adequate to fight corruption. We need a comprehensive anti-corruption code in this country. The UPA Government has developed a powerful anti-corruption frame work consisting of eight new Central laws...... This is not about one Bill, this is about a frame work and we want to deliver that frame work to the country

  Rahul Gandhi

  Country, Powerful, Fighting

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• We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.

  Peter Eigen

  Addresses, Individual, Approach

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• Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

  Robert Payne

  World, Precaution, Claims

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.

  Johann Most

  Stupid, America, Prejudice

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• The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

  Ali Khamenei

  Political, Plot, Disability

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• I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

  Fiona Apple

  Parent, Development, Want

  Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 7, 1997.

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• No nation went into oblivion or was destroyed because it had bad laws, or because its statesmen were not intelligent, but because of INTERNAL CORRUPTION, and because they could not maintain the POWER OF SELF-CONTROL.

  Melvin J. Ballard

  Intelligent, Self, Law

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• Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

  Bob Etheridge

  Office, Levels, Republican

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• I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Power Corruption, Power And Corruption, Fascinated

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

  Peter Eigen

  Real, Two, Differences

  "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

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• If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

  Strive Masiyiwa

  Children, Powerful, School

  "Zimbabwe tycoon says he refused massive bribe demands in building his African business empire". www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2013.

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• The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

  Adam Smith

  Powerful, Mean, Causes

  Adam Smith (2012). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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• Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.

  Samuel Adams

  Law, Government, People

  The Advertiser, 1748.

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• I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

  Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

  Enemy, Democracy, Young

  "CNN's Amanpour", www.cnn.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

  Arshad Warsi

  India, Calm, Talent

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• When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Struggle, Fall, Commitment

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