#corrupt

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. ↗

— Paul Klee

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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

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Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. ↗

— Paul Ryan

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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

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It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference. ↗

— Bess Myerson

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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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