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Quotations regarding 'Corruption'

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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.
Lee R. Raymond, American Businessman (1938-  )
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
Frank Serpico, American Celebrity (1936-  )
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.
Al Sharpton, American Politician (1954-  )
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet (1792-1822)
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.
Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician (1928-  )
But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
Eduard Shevardnadze, Politician (1928-  )
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Algernon Sidney, English Politician
Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?
Charles Simeon, English Clergyman
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.
Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician (1900-1965)
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus, Roman Historian
Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.
James Thomson, Scottish Musician (1700-1748)
The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
Linda Tripp, American Celebrity (1949-  )
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov, English Actor (1921-2004)
We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.
David Vitter, American Politician (1961-  )
This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.
Josiah Warren, American Inventor
My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
George Weah, Liberian Politician (1966-  )
None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
Morris West, Australian Writer (1916-1999)
All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.
Morris West, Australian Writer (1916-1999)
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White, American Musician (1944-2003)
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull, American Activist (1838-1927)
 
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