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• No wonder we have a lot of violence in Rio: the corrupt and violent policemen meet the violent criminals in the streets. What else is going to happen?

  Jose Padilha

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  Tags in Violent, Corrupt

• With ‘Hunger Games,’ it’s about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

  Woody Harrelson

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  The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

  Tacitus

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• Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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• The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

  Bruce Sterling

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• They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

  Imelda Marcos

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• Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It’s the most theatrically corrupt.

  Studs Terkel

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• My husband is not American. He was born in Brazil, where he grew up under a filthy, corrupt dictatorship. In his twenties, he moved to Europe, where he lived for a while under various socialist democracies. He spent a few years on a kibbutz in Israel, living out a utopian experiment in communal existence.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

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• Its easy to view politicians as corrupt and voting essentially an act of picking the lesser of two evils. I understand that perspective and feel it’s valid.

  Macklemore

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• Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt – but most think it’s bipartisan.

  Chuck Todd

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• Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

  Adlai E. Stevenson II

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• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.

  William Pitt

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• Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

  Felix Adler

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• Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

  Joseph Addison

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• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.

  Tacitus

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• Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

  Wendell Phillips

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• I have never intimidated the masses… I only intimidate corrupt officials.

  Zhu Rongji

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• That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.

  Hall Caine

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• I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

  Ginger Baker

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