#corrupt

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world. ↗

— Ginger Baker

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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

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Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. ↗

— Saul Alinsky

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

— Andre Bazin

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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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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

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Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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