25 result(s) for Quotes About Corrupting The Next Generation.
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
"A corrupt society is one where relationships are based on deals, not love; on bargaining, not trust."
"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."
"To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralized nation tells demoralized stories to itself."
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
"Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national priorities."
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"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens."
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, while corruption invariably endangers the morals of the entire country."
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
"There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it."
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled or lacking in respect for their elders. Today, they are afraid."
"The buck stops here."
"A culture of corruption breeds indifference. Indifference is society's most lethal disease."
"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
"The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow."
"The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as soulless units to be manipulated or exterminated, are all symptoms of the eclipse of the idea of man made in God's image."
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"Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them."
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
"Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe."
