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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.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

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

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

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

The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

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.

The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way.