{"quotes":[{"text":"Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["corrupt","corrupt-society","corruption","instant-gratification","society"],"id":864,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"The cruelty of men had infected the land, and sea only swept in sharp waves to the shores.","author":"Gayendra Abeywardane","tags":["corruption","cruelty","infection","men"],"id":1165,"author_id":"Gayendra+Abeywardane"},{"text":"I am far more fearful of the USA government than I am of North Korea.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["corruption","far","fearful","government","international","korea","north","politics","psychology","usa"],"id":2279,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief and never really directed solely at the imbalance that supposedly inspired it. The rule of law becomes the rule of violence. Revenge becomes a synonym for justice. No city is safe from such horror, no nation, no time in all of history. Be ready to recognize the moment. Be always ready.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["corruption","power","revenge","violence"],"id":3732,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Power can be hoarded by the mighty or stolen from the innocent.Power provides the ability to choose. But has a proclivity for corruption. The use of power is not to be taken lightly, for it is never without consequence.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["consequence","corruption","innocent","mighty","power","revenge","revenge-tv-series"],"id":4354,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["aspirations","aspire","attack","corruption","defend","defense","faithful","food-for-thought","honest","honesty","israelmore-ayivor","keep-calm","lead","leader","leadership","role","roles","self-leadership","true-character","unfaithfulness"],"id":5984,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreters to distort the essence of the religion, to replace the bright flame with the heat of the inquisitors' pyres. The time came when every book was cast into the fire, when every symphony was reduced to a popular tune and played in all the drinking dens. A sound philosophical basis could be set in place under any vile nonsense.","author":"Sergei Lukyanenko","tags":["anton-gorodetsky","corruptibility","corruption"],"id":6755,"author_id":"Sergei+Lukyanenko"},{"text":"People keep saying someone should fix the system, the system is corrupt. What they don’t get is; they are the system. It’s just like how people hate McDonald’s and Coca Cola. People say they are evil corporations, terrorists and ruining the health of the future but then, how are these brands live and running all over the world, making billions of dollars of profit every day? People still buy it, that’s how. The majority of the world is people who know something is bad for them but keep consuming it. If it’s so bad for you, why buy it? If the system is so bad, why do they vote for it? It’s the people who need to change not the leaders.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["corporations","corruption","democracy","life","people"],"id":8489,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of the small arguments.","author":"Lawrence Lessig","tags":["activity","arguments","beliefs","corruption","government","life","money","political-campaigns","politics"],"id":11761,"author_id":"Lawrence+Lessig"},{"text":"Telling the truth may cause a few seconds of pain, but there's no medicine that can manage the pain of keeping lies.","author":"R.M. Ford","tags":["accountability","confession","corruption","deceit","helpful","honor","integrity","justice","lies","pain","transparently","truth"],"id":12563,"author_id":"R.M.+Ford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":585,"pages":59,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}