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Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted. – John Lyly

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I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect — it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman. – Graham Greene

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The bad apples are at the top. They enjoy murdering the innocent people. – James Dye

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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. – Edmund Burke

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