Kingdom is better.
Kings don’t need to be corrupt.
The owners don’t need to corrupt.
Their servants only can be..
In a democracy, everyone is so.
20.12.2005
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Democracy
(Democracy in India has become a fun for certain people. The nexus between the corrupt politicians and corrupt officers is responsible for degrading the values of democracy)
People's state for the people, by the people,
But what kind of people?
Criminals, robbers murderers, rapists,
And off-course the corrupts,
These are the people?
And
honest, simple and plain speaking
Feel suffocated,
If this is democracy,
I denounce it.
poem by Mohammad Akmal Nazir
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They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
quote by Imelda Marcos
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Corrupt crops
As a child I was corrupt less.
As I grew to an adolescent,
I know all adults are corrupt.
As an adult, I forgave them.
Growing wise, I forgave myself.
Corruption cannot be weeded.
Crops themselves are corrupt.
31.11.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Corruption Is Cancer
The head is perfect with others corrupt.
Others are perfect with the head corrupt.
Both are same; the system is corrupt.
It’s like cancer growing in an organ.
(02.07.2011)
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Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
quote by Studs Terkel
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When starts decay?
Corrupt men and lack of action
Against corrupt men are heading
To a situation where honest men
Cannot work. Then will starts decay.
15.07.2011
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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If the teacher be corrupt, the world will be corrupt.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Illegal Fake Fishing Licenses
'Indonesia's corrupt
fisheries officials
1980s trawling was banded
issue corrupt officials
illegal fake licenses
costs revenue lost
2 billion dollars
annually to economy'
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, 1903
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
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Nothing Is Missing
From ambiguous to ambiguity,
They steal around and still tell us all is well;
But who do they think they are fooling? ! !
Fir the news is known by all around this town.
Out of space and from nowhere,
Life is like that at times;
With negative governments all around us!
On the flip side,
What vision do they have? !
With corrupt leaders who always tell us nothing is wrong,
But the answer lies in our own mouths.
View things from the highest point and tell me what you see,
For the corrupt governments have divided the wealth of the nations!
Yet still they say to us, nothing is missing.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
quote by William Gaddis
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Building The Ark
Cumque vidisset Deus terram esse corruptam omnis
quippe caro corruperat viam suam super terram
Fac tibi arcam de lignis levitagis mansiunculas
in arca facies et bitumine lilies intrinsecus et extrinserus
...corrupta est autem terra coram Deo...
Et ex cunctis animantibus universae carnis bina indu-
ces in arcam ut vivant tecum
"Thy servants are we,
our lord who sits up high,
Thy rod and thy staff,
shall comfort and guide our hands"
Translation:
And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was
corrupt: for all flesh
had corrupted his way upon the earth.
"Make Thee an ark of gopher wood;
rooms shalt thou make in the ark,
and shalt pitch it within and without
pitch"
...The earth was corrupt before God.
"Of every living thing of all flesh,
two of every sort shalt thou bring
into the ark
to keep them alive
with thee
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Sonnet: Elections’ Aftermath!
The elections are over in some states;
The better parties have come back to pow’r;
Some corrupt ministers had sealed their fates;
The summer heat is lessened by cool show’r.
The sufferings of farmers ceased a bit;
Most lakes are full of water brought by rain;
Relief sighs come from teachers who’re hard-hit;
Government servants seem happy again.
Most people hope to live a peaceful life;
Their days of debts and eating rats are gone;
The leader now will help them out of strife;
The Rising Sun has brought a newer dawn!
Let’s thank the Lord who changed the state of things!
Let pride / revenge not fill the hearts of kings!
Copyright by Dr John Celes 5-11-2006
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