"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."

Alinsky, Saul on Corruption
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"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

Burke, Edmund on Corruption
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"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us."

Chapman, John Jay on Corruption
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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect -- it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."

Greene, Graham on Corruption
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"I am against government by crony."

Ickes, Harold L. on Corruption
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"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."

Kraus, Karl on Corruption
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"Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism."

Lippmann, Walter on Corruption
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"The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted."

Lyly, John on Corruption
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"The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."

Myerson, Bess on Corruption
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"When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will."

Shakespeare, William on Corruption
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"The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Corruption
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"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."

Thoreau, Henry David on Corruption
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"When I want to buy up any politician I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable -- they don't come so high."

Vanderbilt, William on Corruption
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"It’s totally corrupt man."

Dye, James on Corruption
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"The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people. "

Dye, James on Corruption
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"The USA has become "government by the highest bidder" because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable. "

Don Mashak on Corruption
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"An uncorrupted individual in a corrupted system will finally end up being corrupted himself except and unless he is constantly fighting against the corruption."

Jhurry Muhummad Anas on Corruption
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