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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

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PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

3.8 · 49 votes

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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Corruption

Charles Caleb Colton

AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

3.9 · 21 votes · 133 reads

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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

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WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

4.6 · 49 votes

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

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WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

4.3 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.

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Lord Alfred Tennyson

PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

4.4 · 49 votes

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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

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Henry David Thoreau

PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

3.9 · 41 votes · 183 reads

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Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

3.7 · 53 votes · 138 reads

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When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.

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William Shakespeare

WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

3.8 · 33 votes · 174 reads

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