#corrupt

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia. ↗

— David Remnick

#bred #brutal #corruption #field #free

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#cynics #equally #everybody #except #idealists

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#credibility #end #i #i think #journalism

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#corruption #done #government #government officials #i

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

#age #also #artistic #children #corruption

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

— Alan Rudolph

#kind #nick #plays #politician #redundant

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

#allowed #attempt #capitalism #corrupt #democracy

Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#mind #speech #whenever

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country. ↗