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“With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.”

Ifs Social Opinion Taken Paper Advantage Roots Regard Aim Corruption Wide Improvement Excess Desirable Banking Public Opinion Emissions Transactions Suppression Too Deep Partiality

Author:James Madison

“Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.”

Action Taken Corruption Transparency

Author:Aruna Roy

“Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds.”

Men Long Sometimes Dies Taken Corruption Deathbed

Book:The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

Source: The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America

“The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.”

Ifs Mind Soul Heaven Natural Taken Divine Corruption Flesh Contemplation Peace Within

Author:Seneca the Younger