Corruption

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CORRUPTION: When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Unknown Source)
CORRUPTION: The more corrupt the state, the more laws. (Tacitus, senator and a historian of the Roman Empire, 56-120 AD)
CORRUPTION: When government becomes a lawbreaker, it's an invitation to anarchy. (Federal judge in U.S. Watergate proceedings)
CORRUPTION: When plunder [corruption] becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves . . . a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. (Frederic Bastiat, French writer and economist, 1801-1850)
CORRUPTION: Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions . . . are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. (Walter Lippmann, U.S. reporter, political commentator, writer, and recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, 1889-1974)
CORRUPTION: When foxes guard the henhouses, the hens don't flourish. (Proverb)
CORRUPTION: When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set. (Lin Yutang, Hokkien Chinese writer, translator, linguist, philosopher and inventor, 1895-1976)