The Brown Report: Corruption: Definitions

"It's no use saying 'We are doing our best'. You have got to do what is necessary."

Winston Churchill

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."

Edmund Burke

"I cannot accept, your canon that we are to judge pope and king unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Lord Acton

"It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."

David Brin

"The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."

Justice Louis D. Brandeis

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."

Edmund Burke

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Corruption: Definitions

Corruption. noun. 1. impairment of integrity, virtue, or moral principle; depravity. 2. decay; decomposition. 3. inducement to wrong by improper or unlawful means (as bribery). 4. a departure from the original or from what is pure or correct.

Merriam-Webster

English Dictionary

Corruption: The misuse of entrusted power for private benefit.

Transparency International

The Brown Report

Thursday, March 17, 2005

Corruption: Definitions

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