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“I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.”
William Shakespeare
“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.”
David Brin
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means”
Georges Bernanos
“Peace is the happy natural state of man; war is corruption and disgrace.”
James Thomson
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it; and this I know, my lords, that where laws end, tyranny begins”
William Pitt the younger
“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference”
Bess Myerson
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.”
John Henry Newman
“The more corrupt the state, the more laws.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
