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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Al-Ghazali
The debasement of faiths stems from reducing them to mere verbalizations and facades.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language
George Orwell
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Upton Sinclair
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Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.
Bernard Madoff
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Joe Eszterhas
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To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
G. Edward Griffin
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We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital
Muhammadu Buhari
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We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.
Nong ?uc Manh
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Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne
John Wayne
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The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.
Vishal Mangalwadi
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The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
Thaddeus Stevens
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There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.
A. K. Antony
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
David Brin
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When you fight corruption, it fights back.
Nuhu Ribadu
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Because I don`t think it`s true. I don`t think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It`s the exception, not the rule.
Brian E. Frosh
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
Carlos Fuentes
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
Imran Khan
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A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
Milton Friedman
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He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
Paul the Apostle
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Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.
Vladimir Putin
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Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.
Julian Assange
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A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
Horace
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The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume
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The bigger the government, the greater the corruption
Dennis Prager
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Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'
Paul Craig Roberts
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A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
John Grant
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
Tacitus
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
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It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head
Joseph Wambaugh
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The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him.
Jackie Mason
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Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.
William Law
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The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.
George Berkeley
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
John Dryden
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We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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The flag of your nation - wave it! Begin to separate your nation from whatever covenant your forefathers must have had. Break the covenant of corruption/ stealing/ killing/ destruction/ idolatry - break it right now!
T. B. Joshua
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Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
Baron de Montesquieu
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In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
Alan Greenspan
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There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.
Femi Kuti
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The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.
Alan Bullock
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As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
W. H. Auden
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People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.
Julian Assange
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Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Frank Herbert