#corruption

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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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

#corruption #eliminate #exist #foundations #motivations

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

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I’m famous for my Shepherd’s Pie. Here’s my recipe: lamb, potatoes, cheese, peas, paprika, and a wool-covered apron for the chef/shepherd/wolf-like politician to wear while serving the sheeple up.
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— Jarod Kintz

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

— Bess Myerson

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What did “good government” really mean? Langlie and his brotherhood promised an end to political corruption. (There’s no evidence that Langlie ever even took a drink, much less a bribe.) The days of “honest graft” were over, at least for a while. But seen from another perspective—that of ordinary citizens without access to Langlie and Abram’s elite network—Langlie didn’t so much end corruption as legalize it. Langlie wasn’t opposed to a government organized around the interests of the greedy; he just didn’t want to have to break the law to serve them. ↗

— Jeff Sharlet

#bribery #government #legality #political-corruption #united-states