#corrupt

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#call #corrupt #down #face #frivolous

We don't know what proportion of public funds is regularly lost to collusion and corruption. Is it 25 per cent? 30 per cent? We do know that a portion of these public funds are feeding organized crime. ↗

— Pauline Marois

#collusion #corruption #crime #feeding #funds

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

Bad company corrupts good character. ↗

— Menander

#character #company #corrupts #good #good character

In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams. ↗

— Laura Miller

#air #being #breath #brought #city

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#beginning #both #corrupt #covetousness #devil

I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opposition leaders usually do. All they do is hold roundtables and release political statements, which is all well and good. But there are concrete things that need to get done in order to achieve the basic goal of every opposition politician. ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#against #always #basic #campaigns #concrete

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#corrupt #differently #esteem #higher #him

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#corrupted #destroyed #goodness #love #power

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

#corruption #greatest #our #single #society