Corruption

From the drip drip drip of the teardrops
To the chink chink chink of the cash
To the end end end of the friendships
To the wack wack wack of the bash
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
From the tick tick tick of your times up
To the yes yes yes of Ill sell
From the fact fact fact of the souless
To the pact pact pact with hell
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones
Corruption corruption corruption
Rules my soul
Corruption corruption corruption
Chills my bones

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Corruption Bill

Parliament enacts
The Anticorruption Bill.
Prisoners make fence

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Bribery is the enemy of justice.

Swahili proverbs
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Bribery makes both parties happy.

Persian proverbs
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

quote by William Gaddis
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

quote by Robert Anton Wilson
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Corrupt crops

As a child I was corrupt less.
As I grew to an adolescent,
I know all adults are corrupt.
As an adult, I forgave them.
Growing wise, I forgave myself.
Corruption cannot be weeded.
Crops themselves are corrupt.
31.11.2008

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No cure for virus

Entrance by loyalty
Will breed dishonesty.
Entrance by bribery
Will breed inefficiency.
Loyalty and bribery
Creeping into judiciary
And all ministry,
Virus cripples democracy.
No prosperity can cure it.
05.11.2010

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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

quote by Gore Vidal
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What we call rottenness is just the return to inorganic eternity.

aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.

Persian proverbs
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

quote by Jack Levine
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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

classic quote by John Steinbeck
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

quote by Samuel Richardson
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When starts decay?

Corrupt men and lack of action
Against corrupt men are heading
To a situation where honest men
Cannot work. Then will starts decay.
15.07.2011

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Corruption Is Cancer

The head is perfect with others corrupt.
Others are perfect with the head corrupt.
Both are same; the system is corrupt.
It’s like cancer growing in an organ.

(02.07.2011)

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When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

quote by Thomas Jefferson
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton in letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (3 April 1887)
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Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

quote by Thomas Jefferson
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Political Junkies

power is narcotic drug
few politicians resist
pulse corrupting allure

poem by Terence George Craddock
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