#corruption

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

#come #communism #corruption #country #disrupted

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots. ↗

— Ayatollah Khamenei

#corruption #cultural #economic #must #plots

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

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

— Jonathan Swift

#corruptions #nothing #politics #understood #word

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

— Martin Scorsese

#corruption #crime #interesting #political #relevant

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

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#country #enough #eradicating #sustain

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. ↗