#corruption

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief. ↗

— Jeff Miller

#corruption #country #court #devoid #establish

Whoever looks at America will see: the ship is powered by stupidity, corruption, or prejudice. ↗

— Johann Most

#corruption #looks #powered #prejudice #see

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#defect #evil #excess #only #own

The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#arab #better #chickens #corruption #down

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

— John F. Kennedy

#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

#consolidation #corruption #country #course #destruction

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

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. ↗

— Eduard Shevardnadze

#corruption #eliminate #exist #foundations #motivations