“For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.”
Ama Ata Aidoo
“The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.”
Bess Myerson
“This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.”
James L. Buckley
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.”
Amos Bronson Alcott
“Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.”
Olusegun Obasanjo
“The winner must promote social justice, remove corruption and discrimination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.”
Ayatollah Khomeini
“Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.”
Charles Caleb Colton
“In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, corruption begins to grow like a mushroom.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.”
John Jay Chapman
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