CORRUPTION
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Where
the roots of private virtue are diseased,
the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.
-- Felix Adler
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A government, for protecting business only,
is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption
and decay.
-- Amos Bronson
Alcott
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The
duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
-- Kurt Cobain
Money
and corruption are ruining the land,
crooked politicians betray the working man,
pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep,
and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll
never keep.
--Ray Davies
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The
only way to escape the personal corruption of
praise is to go on working.
-- Albert Einstein
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"Our
society's values are being corrupted by advertising's
insistence on the equation:
youth equals popularity, popularity equals success,
success equals happiness."
-- John Arbuthnot Fisher
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“Corruption
and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products
of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today”
-- Mohandas Gandhi
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We’re looking at the singular condition
of poverty. All the other individual problems
spring from that condition... doesn’t matter if
it’s death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability,
governance, corruption or war. All of that is
poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to
heal each of the individual aspects of poverty,
not poverty itself.
-- Bob Geldof
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"I'm
not against the corporations. They are our wealth.
But they are getting too greedy. I don't want
to do away with corporations. I want them to make
our cars, however, not our laws."
-- Doris
Haddock (Granny D)
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We have a duty to look after each other. If we
lose control of our government, then we lose our
ability to dispense justice and human kindness.
Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly
those forces of greed and corruption that have
come between us and our self-governance.
-- Doris
Haddock (Granny D)
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If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption
and on those threatened institutions that are
trying to prevent change - even though they don't
really know what they're trying to prevent - then
you can get pessimistic.
~ Paul Hawken
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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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I
see in the near future a crisis approaching that
unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety
of my country....corporations have been enthroned
and an era of corruption in high places will follow,
and the money of the country will endeavor to
prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices
of the people until all wealth is aggregated in
a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel
at this moment more anxiety for the safety of
my country than ever before, even in the midst
of war.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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But
when you have bad governance, of course, these
resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested,
there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion.
I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these
issues become linked to governance, to corruption,
to dictatorship.
~ Wangari Maathai
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The
students I've been with these twenty years are
looking for a world where it becomes a little
easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where
learning nonviolence means that we dedicate
our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment
that the force of love, the force of truth,
the force of justice, and the force of organized
resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane
and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs
insane.
-- Colman McCarthy
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Debt
is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing
and the mightiest to undermine governments and
corrupt the people.
-- Wendell Phillips
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The
fight for justice against corruption is never easy.
It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll
on our self, our families, our friends, and especially
our children.
In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay
is well worth holding on to our dignity.
-- Frank Serpico
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Power
does not corrupt men;
fools, however, if they get into a position of
power, corrupt power.
-- George Bernard
Shaw
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Those who corrupt the public mind are just as
evil as those who steal from the public purse.
-- Adlai Stevenson
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our
friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping
their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.
. . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish
and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true
lover, no true friend.
-- Harriet Beecher
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Serving
democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the
media,
something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies
in a society,
but also defending non-corrupt communication.
-- Rowan D. Williams
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