George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language"
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Upton Sinclair
Novelist, Activist
"One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne"
Thaddeus Stevens
Politician
"The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."
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"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
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"A bad forgery's the ultimate insult."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"Corruption is not a Canadian value!"
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"Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it."
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"The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that."
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"The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
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"Let's fight against corruption for a better India"
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"If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence."
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"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption."
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"Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe."
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"PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts."
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"Corruption wins not more than honesty."
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"Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud."
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"The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language."
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"All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members."
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"Realism is a corruption of reality."
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"He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."
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"Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt."
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"He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one."
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