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“Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.”

Government Culture Party Issues Republican Disease Highest Sick Corruption Dirty Sat Toms Delay Symptoms Dirty Money

Author:Howard Dean

“All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.”

World Children Problem Spiritual Compassion Disease Labor Corruption Symptoms Child Labor Lack Of Compassion

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.”

Thinking Men Needs Should Persons Seems Causes Conditions Mankind Human Nature Particular Disease Surprise Corruption Pleasant Good Man Liable Disagreeable

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness”

Mind Art Community Consciousness Worst Disease Art Is Medicine Corruption

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“It is impossible to rise to freedom, from the midst of corruptions, without strong convulsions. They are the salutary crises of a serious disease. We are in want of a terrible political fever, to carry off our foul humors.”

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Author:Madame Roland

“Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.”

War Soul Evil Virtue Particular Disease Clothes Vices Corruption Woods Envy Destroyed Destructive Iron Worms Consuming Prohibition Rust Moths Destructive Power

Author:Menander

“Our foremost priority is the removal of poverty, hunger and malnutrition, disease and illiteracy. All social welfare programmes must be implemented efficiently. Agencies involved in the delivery of services should have a strong sense of duty and work in a transparent, corruption-free, time-bound and accountable manner.”

“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.”

Feelings Today Evil Women Poverty Terrible Disease Victim Charity Cancer Corruption Neighbor Indifference Exploitation Unwanted Deserted Lack Of Love Tuberculosis Roadside Leprosy

Book:My Life for the Poor

Source: My Life for the Poor

“Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. This is not what you expect to find on the resume of a supreme being. It's what you expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.”

“It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation of the environment with pesticides, hunger, disease. When the poor share some of the power that the affluent now monopolize, we will give a damn.”

People Giving Church Poor Environment Share Moon Disease Environmental Hunger Corruption Excited Oil Damn Pollution Rockets Leaks Devastation Affluent Pesticides Smog

Book:An Organizer's Tale: Speeches

Source: An Organizer's Tale: Speeches