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Corruption is not a problem just for some countries; this is a global issue.
In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.
But you must know that if corruption is powerful enough, it's not corruption at all - it's law. Unspoken, unwritten, but law.
Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.
Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
Corruption begins with a single moment of weakness.
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.
Lack of knowledge and skills, laziness, gluttony, over-indulgence, lustiness, anger, fear, greed and misuse of knowledge, power and designation are the sources of corruption in the government employees.
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent.
This is the kind of corruption we understand, the corruption of the petty clerk writ large, and so this is the kind of corruption we look for. This is the kind of guilt we expect and understand: personal, targeted, involving suitcases. We really need suitcases.
We now have a national reputation for corruption.
We are born in innocence ... Corruption comes later. The first fear is a corruption, the first reaching for something that defies us. The first nuance of difference, the first need to feel better than the different one, more loved, stronger, richer, more blessed
these are corruptions.
Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.
When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.
Do not think that you can fight corruption without while you let corruption fester within.
Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.
Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Loyalty in a critic is corruption.
Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.
If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school. The most powerful force against corruption is one person saying "no".
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
Salaries are a huge area of corruption.
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
My colleague and I are journalists ... Not of the muckraking variety, I hasten to assure you! Corruption is a necessary and time-honored concomitant of any functioning government, which we support wholeheartedly.
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.
In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.
Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor
Corruption is not bribery but bribery is corruption.
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.
There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'
All my life I have fought corruption.
My work about corruption is to get people to see it less as a moral issue (right/wrong) and more as an economic issue (economies of influence and their effect).
We mustn't hesitate to cut corruption at its roots.
When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.
The work to eradicate corruption must begin from the top. It is spread like termite in our country. We have to work at all levels to eradicate corruption
There's always someone bigger and badder who can knock you off your perch - even if you're me. Never forget it and you don't have to worry about corruption. You'll be too afraid with watching your own back.
Alexandria "Dria" McAndrews
unchecked power corrupts.
There is no corruption but mere stealing in Nigeria
Corruption in the political process varies directly with the number and value of things that politicians have to sell. This
The whole f**king system is corrupt.
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination.
In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
The highest mode of corruption is the abuse of power.
We live in blatantly corrupt times.
The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.
I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.
Corruption often exists because there are too many market forces, not too few.
Corruption is a virus with an antidote.
Injustice is an illness with a remedy.
Wisdom is the key to good governance;
righteousness is the key to sustaining it.
Entitlement and privelege corrupt.
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed
I embrace my own festering diseased corruption,
Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.
When people treat corruption as a routine part of the process, you have something far worse than wrongdoing or moral failing. You have a political cancer that breeds cynicism about democratic government and infects all of society.
Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.
As for corruption, who's more corrupt - the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?
The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.
The actual theme of corruption can condemn humanity and this conflict can be resolved when people are diligent to put an end to this catastrophe as a community.
Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.
Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.
In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted
or rather tend to be corrupted
by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will.
But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.
It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.
Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
Corruption and leaders who feel they are not accountable to the people who 'elected' them to their positions are major issues afflicting the nation
[the downfall of our political system is the] buying and selling of politicians ... bribery. In the private sector, you're arrested for it. In the public sector, it's the norm ...
Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way.
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
Corruption, money laundering, and tax evasion are global problems, not just challenges for developing countries.
Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches ...
greed can corrupt a state and that a public official who betrays his trust "ought to feel the utmost rigor of public resentment and be detested as a traitor of the worst and most dangerous kind.
It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.
We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital
The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent corruption taking place in the first place.
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.
It's foul what this money could do, cash corrupts the loyal.
A nation is truly corrupted when having ... lost its character and it's liberty, it passes from democracy to aristocracy or to monarchy. That is the decrepitude and death of the body politic ...