#corrupt

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. ↗

— James F. Cooper

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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. ↗

— Olusegun Obasanjo

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I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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To confront criminals, we need to finish with corruption. If we don't do this, there is no hope. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption. ↗

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

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Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. ↗

— Ovid

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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. ↗

— John F. Lehman, Jr.

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