For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country. — Dmitry Peskov Copy Share Image
While giving a clear majority to my government in 2014, the people of the country had also given a clear mandate to… — Ram Nath Kovind Copy Share Image
“No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn't even know what was going on inside of… — Sierra D. Waters Copy Share Image
“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When an office-holder facing a multi-count indictment says that he has decided to spend more time with his family, the proper response… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power… — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Copy Share Image
This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
I knew I had to cover my back and document what I saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle… — Omarosa Manigault Newman Copy Share Image
Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
“Poverty is a human-engineered product per excellence. It results primarily from inequitable distribution of national revenues coupled with escalating levels of corruption… — Moutasem Algharati Copy Share Image
I think the gap between the rich and the poor is a dangerous phenomenon in Russia and it needs the attention of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“And yet—he thought—through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“protectionI requested the figures on OSHA whistle-blower complaints made and the number actually upheld. OSHA refused to supply them. They also refused… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than… — William James Copy Share Image
It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christian theology is a pretty villainous… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully AND testifying falsely, but I now realize that I did not fully accomplish… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.” — Sukant Ratnakar Copy Share Image
There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights. — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“A corrupt angel . . . corrupted by me, agent of the devil himself. The perfect pairing” — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“I liked the idea of a person shedding their life, and someone else putting it on. -Oliver Harris on writing The Hollow… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
Opposition today, government tomorrow. The faces change, the robberies are the same or even greater than before. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again. — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When someone harasses me, I take a look at the situation and ask the question: What motivated them? When I get the… — steven magee Copy Share Image
“Those in government are especially susceptible to the corruption of power, because government is institutionalized coercion.” — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power; power corrupts. Corruption brings shame and ruin. Ignorance may not be bliss, but it is perhaps preferable to a… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption. — John Knox Copy Share Image
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
![“They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market…” quote by Jamie Dimon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84c/jamie-dimon-1320_business_they-ll-china-probably-be-a-fully-develo_2190152.png)
