#corruption

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

— Ayatollah Khamenei

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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

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

— Martin Scorsese

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

— Eduard Shevardnadze

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

— Eduard Shevardnadze

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Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. ↗

— Tacitus

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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

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