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Corruption Quotes
"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."
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"Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist."
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"Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem."
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"I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve."
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"One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite."
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"But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country."
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"Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed."
"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
"Nigeria is a country with abundance of wealth, but because of lack of truth and integrity, the wealth are stolen, but the paradox of the whole thing is, this stolen wealth always find their way to nations with no apparent natural wealth, but with a high credit of degree of truth and honesty."
"The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party."
"We have taken decisive steps to curb corruption. We removed discretion in allocation of key resources and moved to transparent auctions of mines, spectrum and FM radio licenses. We have plugged leakages through DBT."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create their wealth in their nation. They rather think they must be given."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption"
"Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America."
"What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing."
"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
"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."
"Since when has grafts, bribes to get your children into the higher institution become a Nigerian thing?"
"Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy."
"We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption."
"I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia."
"I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment."
"Every evil we see in our society today can be traced back to ignorance."
"Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt."
"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
"It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats."
"We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption."
"I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is getting very troublesome to my constituents when they hear this repeated consistent drum beat of a corruption of the democratic process."
"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."
"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."
"At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed."
"Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty."
"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
"The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police."
"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
"Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance."
"Since when has bringing stolen money to churches for Pastor's blessings become a Nigerian norm?"
"No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery."
"There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite."
"The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots."
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