Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

quote by David Garrick
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

quote by Alan John Percivale Taylor
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can corruption be curbed
by a bill brought by a corrupt bureaucracy
against its own vested interests and freedom?

senryu by John Celes
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

quote by A.J.P. Taylor
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Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

classic quote by George Bernard Shaw
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I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

quote by Richard J. Needham
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When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

classic quote by Benjamin Disraeli
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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.

quote by Seneca
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

quote by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Quarter Of Seven

indirect bribery
escapes my mind
so i open back
the pages
of what he once did
when he was
on top of it all

that power that
corrupted him
absolutely

that lack of skill in
mastering honesty

sometimes these
capacities are forgotten

regret always comes late
pain sips souls on the other hand

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poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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Kingdom is better.

Kings don’t need to be corrupt.
The owners don’t need to corrupt.
Their servants only can be..
In a democracy, everyone is so.
20.12.2005

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Ackumey

Judicial corruption,
Vowed,
Claims,
To produce proof;
With the guilty of abetting the other person!
But the Crusading Guide was like the muse of your act,
Because of whgat occurred in the dark! !
However, with allegations of bribery against the judiciary from Ackumey your close relative.

poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

quote by John Lyly
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Scam Lost Its Stigma

The bribe was once given
To lure one to fault.
Now it is demanded
Even to work to the rule.
Bribery turned into scams.
Scam has lost its stigma.

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Character is always corrupted by prosperity.

Icelandic proverbs
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

quote by Amos Bronson Alcott
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Evil words corrupt good manners.

Dutch proverbs
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

quote by Henry Fielding
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On Corruption

If corruption be mammoth tree,
Whose seed got planted by many,
But nurture it, most of us do-
Uproot it early, we ought to.

If corruption be cancerous,
And made by man and not inborn,
That we can give to all others-
The cure is within us, brothers.

If corruption is our pet beast,
But wild in nature, pampered free,
Some day, we’ll end up as its feast-
So, shackled in cage, let it be!

The destiny of nations all
Are threatened by corruption’s cloud;
The rain is worse than nuclear pall-
Let mankind not invite this shroud!

poem by John Celes
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

quote by Joseph Addison
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