#corrupt

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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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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A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives. ↗

— Robert Emmet

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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible. ↗

— Ron Fournier

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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism. ↗

— Jack Levine

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

— Anna Lindh

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. ↗

— John Lyly

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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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