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Corruption, the biggest reason for the downfall of most empires and civilization. Some group of people can tolerate corruption as long as their leader champion their religion or race, some will tolerate bribery as long as they champion their own pockets. I’ve lived long enough to see most of my friends that shouted anti-corruption slogan against the government have no problem bribing a police officer and vote for a leader of their choice as long as these leaders championed their own race.

When the leader they support was caught in a corruption scandal, my friends will say there are bigger fish to catch while ignoring the fact that their leader is corrupt. You cannot fight corruption with corruption, all forest fire starts from small and eventually grew massive. If you vote for a corrupt leader because he champions your race or religion, you deserve everything you asked for – crime, robbery, violence and etc.

Nobody said this better than Che Guevara, “Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.” If your own party’s politician is corrupt, speak up.



Power doesn’t corrupt people, people corrupt power. – William Gaddis



The worst disease in the world today is corruption. And there is a cure: transparency. – Bono



Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck



Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase. – Charles Cateb Colton



The more corrupt the state, the more laws. – Tacitus



Your ignorance on corruption is their power.



Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want too test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln



A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke



Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. – John Acton



One does not fight corruption by fighting corruption. – Daniel Kaufman



Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. – Adlai Stevenson



The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. – Albert Einstein



We have the best government that money can buy. – Mark Twain



People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people. – V for Vendetta



If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that’s a very clear message that we don’t want a change. – Sukant Ratnakar



Reject every form of corruption which diverts resources from the poor. – Pope Francis



There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. -Ludwig von Mises



When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. – Frederic Bastiat



Corruption is Authority plus Monopoly minus Transparency.



Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. – Wes Fesler



All things truly wicked start from innocence. – Earnest Hemingway



Diapers and politicians should be changed often. Both for the same reason.



There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. – A.K. Antony



Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves. – Vladimir Putin



The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. – George Bernanos



When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy. – Barry White



What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes. – James L. Buckley



It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.



The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. – Kurt Cobain



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



A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices. – George Orwell



I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracy. – Tsakhiagiin Elebegdorj



Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. – Milton Friedman



The corruption in any country is nothing but a sign of selfish people who live there in the majority. – Din



Corruption is like a mosquito, it sucks the blood of common man. – Sana Shaikh



If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already. – Bob Marley



Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same. – Leo Tolstoy



The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous laws. – Tacitius



Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. – Olusegun Obasanjo



Instead of politicians, let the monkey govern the country. At least they will only steal the bananas. – Mehmet Murat Ildan



As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. – Christopher Dawson



There are some things that money can’t buy… like manners, morals and integrity.

A good leader will not champion his own race or religion, as seen with Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew. Lee Kuan Yew was heavily against corruption and took a huge stance against it as seen by his policies (such as high pay for governmental officials and ministers that are peg to private sectors to prevent corruption). Once Kuan Yew’s friend was caught in a corruption scandal, his good friend was throw into jail, prior to that, his friend begged Kuan Yew not to charge him, but Kuan Yew chose to stand firm on his principles over his good friend. Anti-Corruption is not just a slogan, shouting about anti-corruption doesn’t make you a Pro-Clean government person, it is your action that counts. If you know the party you support is corrupt but willing to close an eye, you are not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.

Transparency International (TI) has published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) since 1995, annually ranking countries “by their perceived levels of corruption, as determined by expert assessments and opinion surveys.”[1] The CPI generally defines corruption as “the misuse of public power for private benefit.” The CPI currently ranks 177 countries “on a scale from 100 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).