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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: cleanliness, consciousness, corruption, feet, individuality, mind, purity
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: corruption, individuality, peer-pressure, youth
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    Carl Sagan
    “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: aristocracy, capitalism, corruption, government, history, oppression, power, rationalization, society
    1823 likes

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    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
    1179 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: corruption, fear, life, power
    673 likes

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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.”
    ― kurt vonnegut, A Man Without a Country
    tags: corruption, music, nonfiction, politics
    432 likes

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    Tacitus
    “The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
    ― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome
    tags: commonwealth, corruption, government, law
    420 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: big-business, business-regulation, corruption, education
    370 likes

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    H.L. Mencken
    “In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
    ― H.L. Mencken
    tags: american, common-sense, corruption, decency, force, hate, honesty, humor, politicians, politics, republic, trust, united-states
    363 likes

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    Henry Kissinger
    “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”
    ― Henry Kissinger
    tags: corruption, dishonesty, politics
    296 likes

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    George Carlin
    “Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations that've long since bought and paid for, the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pocket, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and the information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else. But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: corporatism, corruption, critical-thinking, politics
    281 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
    258 likes

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    “If absolute power corrupts absolutely, where does that leave God?”
    ― George Deacon
    tags: corruption, god, humor, power, religion
    176 likes

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    Kamand Kojouri
    “They want us to be afraid.
    They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
    They want us to barricade our doors
    and hide our children.
    Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
    They want us to hate.
    They want us to hate 'the other'.
    They want us to practice aggression
    and perfect antagonism.
    Their aim is to divide us all!
    They want us to be inhuman.
    They want us to throw out our kindness.
    They want us to bury our love
    and burn our hope.
    Their aim is to take all our light!
    They think their bricked walls
    will separate us.
    They think their damned bombs
    will defeat us.
    They are so ignorant they don’t understand
    that my soul and your soul are old friends.
    They are so ignorant they don’t understand
    that when they cut you I bleed.
    They are so ignorant they don’t understand
    that we will never be afraid,
    we will never hate
    and we will never be silent
    for life is ours!”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: activism, activist, advocacy, afraid, aggression, aim, animosity, annihilate, annihilation, antagonism, arms, barricade, battle, bleed, bomb, bombs, burn, bury, camaraderie, change, children, community, conflict, corrupt, corruption, cut, dark, darkness, defeat, disapprove, divide, division, donald-trump, door, execute, execution, extortion, famine, fear, fight, friends, futile, genocide, government, hate, hatred, hide, home, hope, hope-poems, hopeful, hopeless, hopelessness, hostility, houses, human, humane, humanity, humanness, hunger, ignorance, ignorant, inhuman, inhumane, inspiration, inspirational, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kill, kind, kindness, kojouri, life, life-poems, light, love, love-revolution, love-trumps-war, love-wins, massacre, media, murder, no-wall, object, objection, obliterate, one-earth, one-love, one-nation, oneness, otherness, outcry, peace, politicians, politics, protest, rebel, rebellious, revolt, revolution, scar, scared, scary, separate, separation, silence, silent, solidarity, solidarity-poems, solidarity-quotes, soul, trump, understand, union, unity, unity-poems, unity-quotes, walls, war, war-poems, war-quotes, wholeness
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    Anne Bishop
    “When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]”
    ― Anne Bishop, Heir to the Shadows
    tags: corruption, honor, law
    164 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: america, congress, corruption, government
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    Frank Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, government, ideology, magnetism, mythology, politics, power, religion, science-fiction
    217 likes

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    Amaka Imani Nkosazana
    “When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.”
    ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
    tags: admiration, affirmations, afterlife, attitude, awake, awakening, blessings, confirmation, corruption, courage, curiosity, dedication, destiny, divine-guidance, dreams, earth, evil-people, expression, faithfulness, fate, feelings, finding-yourself, forget, forgiveness, freedom, friends, gifts, god, godliness, guidance, happiness, hate, haters, hatred, heart, heaven, holy, holy-spirit, honesty, imagination, independent, inspiration, inspire, journey, joy, kindness, knowledge, liars, life, life-lessons, living, love, loving-you, loving-yourself, lying, lying-to-yourself, motivation, motivational-quotes, optimistic, passion, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacemaker, people, philosophy, positive-thinking, power, power-of-words, quotes, self-respect, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality, success, thankfulness, trash, treasure, trust, trusting-god, trustworthy, truth, value, vision, wisdom, words-to-live-by, worth
    211 likes

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    Adolf Hitler
    “The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: attributed-no-source, corruption, gun-control, nazis, second-amendment
    165 likes

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  • #20
    “Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning "many" and "tics" meaning "bloodsucking creatures".”
    ― Myron Fagan
    tags: corruption, democracy, dishonesty, politicians, politics
    139 likes

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  • #21
    G. Edward Griffin
    “To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.”
    ― G. Edward Griffin
    tags: corruption, patriotism
    122 likes



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