Corruption quotes

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◆ Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

- Friedrich Nietzsche100

◆ If we go to school to learn, and knowledge is power and power is corrupt and corruption is crime and crime doesn't pay then why the hell do we go to school?

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◆ Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

- Mahatma Gandhi99

◆ Corruption never has been compulsory

- Anthony Eden99

◆ The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means

- Georges Bernanos99

◆ Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

- Charles Caleb Colton99

◆ Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

- Peter Ustinov99

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

- Bess Myerson99

◆ One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

- Indira Gandhi99

◆ The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.

- Teresa Stover99

◆ We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

- George Creel99

◆ If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

- Abdul Kalam99

◆ The more corrupt the state, the more laws.

- Publius Cornelius Tacitus99

◆ Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

- Eleanor Roosevelt99

◆ Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

- Saul Alinsky99