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Letter "C" » corruption
«No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.»
Author: Jacob Bronowski
| About:
Science
| Keywords:
corruption, immune, infection, infections, power politics
«Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we're tired of hearing promises That we know they'll never keep»
Author: Ray Davies
(Guitarist, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Corruption,
Money,
Politicians
| Keywords:
betray, corruption, crooked, hearing, Pocketing, pocket money, profits, promised land, ruining, tired of, treating, working man
«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.»
Author: Saul Alinsky
| Keywords:
corrupting, corruption, go to bed, His father, his mother, Politics of, The Politics
«I think my greatest single achievement took place on a Tuesday in March, when, with much bribery and corruption, I got them to clear the Grand Canal. That was truly Wagnerian.»
«It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.»
Author: Charles de Montesquieu
(Philosopher, Politician)
| Keywords:
corruption, degenerate, mature, spoiled, sunk
«I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.»
Author: Ashleigh Brilliant
(Author, Cartoonist)
| About:
Chance
| Keywords:
corruption, participate, participated, participates, participating
«I am willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them -- the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.»
Author: Thomas Merton
| Keywords:
abounding, abounds, accusation, accuses, all-around, ancient people, Buildings, corruption, keen, pervades, protected, scent, stench, stenches, superficial, The Sweet, undergraduate, Undergraduates, youthfulness
«It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
actual, breeder, cases, chosen, corruption, cowardice, elsewhere, energies, freeman, freemen, lose it, portion, terrors, The Fear, Thousands
«Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee;Corruption wins not more than honesty.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
cherish, corruption, honesty, Thee, wins
«I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
babble, babbling, corruption, drunkenness, frail, frailer, frailest, ingratitude, inhabits, taint, Taints
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