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by Friedrich Nietzsche    ( comments )

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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

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by Joseph P. Kennedy    ( comments )

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Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

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by Bess Myerson    ( comments )

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The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference

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by David Brin    ( comments )

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually more

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.

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by Niccolo Machiavelli    ( comments )

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"Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas

"Corruption continues with us beyond the grave," She said, "and then plays merry hell with all ideas

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by Mahatma Gandhi    ( comments )

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Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

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by Publius Cornelius Tacitus    ( comments )

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Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction more

Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure that man needs the help

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by Saint Aurelius Augustine    ( comments )

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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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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it
passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
[Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi
per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]

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by Francis Beaumont And John Fletcher    ( comments )

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Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew more

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence
Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

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by William Cowper    ( comments )

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. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
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. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts
Into his overgorged and bloated purse
The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

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