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The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
Lincoln Steffens
Life
Best
Man
Corruption
Blame
Honest Man
Crook
Live
Living
Our
Worst
System
Citizens
About
More
Magnificence
Magnificent
Individual
Mere
Individuals
Feel
Longer
Up
Modern
Rewards
Modern Life
Which
Us
Much
Even
Grown
Grown-Up
Honest
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
A. K. Antony
You
Fight
Corruption
Compromise
One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering - I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse - is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Suffering
Corruption
Free
Poison
Think
Other
Other Countries
Our
Worse
Say
India
Countries
Condition
Curses
Biggest
Which
Much
Really
Bribery
Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.
Newt Gingrich
Corruption
Problem
Will
Relaxing
Out
Systemic
Scandal
Find
Scapegoat
Finding
Someone
Lay
Through
Simply
Until
Go
Next
Cycles
Prepared
There can be no compromise regarding corruption.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Corruption
Compromise
Regarding
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton
Corruption
Increase
Once
Must
Like
Ball
Snow
Rolling
Set
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
Charles Spurgeon
Time
Daily
Corruption
Free
Drop
Shall
Sin
Oh
Body
Flesh
Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.
George Papandreou
Government
Confidence
Legal
Corruption
Money
Political
Pay
Consequences
State
Our
System
Enterprises
Citizens
Nepotism
Undermined
Government Agencies
Legal System
Political System
Unfortunately
Public
Agencies
Taxes
Many
Wasting
Widespread
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
Montesquieu
Age
Corruption
People
Young
Those
Degenerate
Sunk
Spoiled
Till
Mature
Young People
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
Faith
Nature
Democracy
Corruption
Our
Way
Restoring
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
Ben Nicholson
Me
You
Soul
Corruption
Beast
Greed
Same Thing
Down
Dante
Guys
Read
Always
Same
Any
Whether
Swift
Boils
Thing
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
Corruption
Crime
Own
Our
Indifference
Frequently
Accomplice
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
Felipe VI of Spain
Corruption
Hesitate
Cut
Roots
Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.
George Ayittey
Corruption
World
Destruction
Cause
Problems
Naked
Carnage
States
Worst
Collapsed
Plunder
Horrendous
Vapid
Cases
Devastated
Economies
Leaving
Caused
Wake
Debris
Trails
Dictators
Human
Wanton
Grand
Theft
Treasury
We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Justice
Trust
Corruption
People
Strong
Weed
Build
System
Out
Must
Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice.
Johann Most
Corruption
Stupidity
Will
See
Powered
Looks
Ship
America
Prejudice
Whoever
The cancer that demands our urgent attention is corruption and poverty.
Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Corruption
Cancer
Poverty
Our
Attention
Demands
Urgent
This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.
Rahman Baba
Life
Good
Corruption
World
Will
Live
Good Deeds
Those
Bitter
Sins
Very
Get
Fruits
Then
Who
Deeds
Corruption is a true enemy to development.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
Corruption
Enemy
True
Development
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
Andrew Jackson
Great
Corruption
People
Strong
Will
Power
Enough
Corrective
Constitutional
Deliberation
Calmness
Prove
Hands
Against
Agents
Used
Usurpation
Right
Suffrage
I believe that transparency is the solution to our problem on corruption.
Grace Poe
Corruption
Problem
Believe
Our
Solution
Transparency
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
Politics
Science
Corruption
Power
Immune
Infection
Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.
John Jay Chapman
You
Man
Corruption
Action
Else
Machine
See
Someone
Gives
Taking
Himself
Governs
Wherever
Us
Prejudice
Reason
Who
Cog
This is the strange thing about South Africa - for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible.
Justin Cartwright
Strange
Corruption
Crime
South Africa
Sense
Possible
About
Seems
Stimulating
South
Offer
Africa
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Strange Thing
Thing
I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
Kelly Preston
Peace
Corruption
World
World Peace
Hunger
Kids
Would
Like
End
Getting
Stop
Create
The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'
Said Nursi
Work
Saying
Me
You
Corruption
Long
First
Live
Others
Ease
Sayings
Hunger
Eat
Morals
Source
Spur
Die
Revolutions
Just
Full
Origin
Base
Suffer
Hardship
Second
Two
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