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“As well as a shared mentality, the Establishment is cemented by financial links and a 'revolving door' culture: that is, powerful individuals gliding between the political, corporate and media worl...”
“A corruption of intentions.”
“He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.”
“No global corruption scandal can be complete without mentioning Pakistani politicians.”
“The capital of the United States is the home to the best of the worst humanity has to offer. The most corrupt, the most deceitful, the most tyrannical, the most greedy, and the most evil rise throu...”
“To mourn is not to fear”
“One day, I want enough money to be at the center of a corruption scandal.”
“The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying.”
“Protesting is never a disturbance of the peace. Corruption, injustice, war and intimidation are disturbances of the peace.”
“[The wilderness] had caressed him, andlo!he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable cere...”
“Nepotism is the lowest and least imaginative form of corruption.”
“The kind of value system prevailing in a country determines the country's reaction and view on corruption.”
“Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking s...”
“We must stop calling corruption a Nigerian factor.”
“Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.”
“The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.”
“For a nation to be corruption free, that culture must first be created through the proclamation and propaganda of a correspondent value system.”
“I'd like you to see that we are interfering too drastically. WE can't just assume so completely that Azerbaijan is in the hands of dangerous men and vicious Bolsheviks. I suppose it's all in the wa...”
“The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country.”
“Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor”
