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    Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

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    No government functions without the grease of corruption.

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    No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

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    No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

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    Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

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    Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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    One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

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    On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

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    Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

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    Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

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    Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

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    Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.

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    Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

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    Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

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    Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

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    Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

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    Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

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    Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

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    Realism is a corruption of reality.

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    Reject every form of corruption.

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    REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

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    Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

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    PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

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    Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

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    Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

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    Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

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    Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

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    Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

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    So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

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    Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

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    Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

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    Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

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    Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

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    That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

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    Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

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    The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

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    The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

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    The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him.

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    The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

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    That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

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    The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

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    The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

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    The corruption of the best is the worst.

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    The government is asleep - there is a big administrative corruption everywhere in its institutions

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    The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!

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    The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

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    Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

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    The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

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    The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

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

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