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The word corrupt (Middle English, from Latin corruptus, past participle of corrumpere, to destroy : com-, intensive pref. and rumpere, to break) when used as an adverb literally means "utterly broken".^[1] In modern English usage the words corruption and corrupt have many meanings:

• Political corruption: the abuse of public power, office, or resources by government officials or employees for personal gain, e.g. by extortion, soliciting or offering bribes.^[2]
• Corporate corruption: corporate criminality and the abuse of power by corporation officials, either internally or externally.
• Putrefaction: the natural process of decomposition in the human and animal body following death.
• Data corruption: an unintended change to data in storage or in transit.
• Linguistic corruption: the change in meaning to a language or a text introduced by cumulative errors in transcription as changes in the language speakers' comprehension.
• Bribery in politics, business, or sport (including match fixing).

Institutions dealing with political corruption

• Transparency International
• Group of States Against Corruption (French: Groupe d'Etats contre la Corruption), a body established under the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation of instruments adopted by member states to combat political corruption.
• Independent Commission Against Corruption

Entertainment with corruption themes

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Wii game.
• Corrupt (film), a 1981 film starring Harvey Keitel and John Lydon.
• Corrupt (1999 film), a 1999 film starring Ice-T and Silkk The Shocker.
• Corrupt (Angel), an unproduced teleplay written for the television program Angel.
• Kurupt, a rapper
• Corruption (video game), a 1988 computer game by Magnetic Scrolls.
• Corrupted, a Japanese doom-metal band.

See also

• Collusion

References

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Quotes about Corruption

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(in alphabetic order, by author)

• "Corruption is stealing from the poor."
  - Anon

• "Rest assured knowing justice exists only as the divergence between what we know, and what we believe."
  - Anon

• "Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy."
  –Ashleigh Brilliant

• "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
  –Ashleigh Brilliant

• "It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power."
  –David Brin

• "Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
  "Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
  –Edmund Burke

• "Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."
  –Charles Caleb Colton

• "Corruption of the best becomes the worst." – "Corruptio optimi pessima."
  –latin proverb

• "Money and Corruption Are ruining the land Crooked politicians Betray the working man, Pocketing the profits And treating us like sheep, And we're tired of hearing promises That we know they'll never keep."
  –Ray Davies

• "Corruption never has been compulsory."
  –Anthony Eden

• "Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
  –Mahatma Gandhi

• "Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy."
  -Mahatma Gandhi

• "Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves."
  –David Garrick

• "Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both."
  –John Fitzgerald Kennedy

• "Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad."
  –Henry A. Kissinger

• "The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference."
  –Bess Myerson

• "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
  –Friedrich Nietzsche

• "I don't doubt that we suffer from a plentiful dose of corruption. But I doubt not less that people, who otherwise don't miss anything else can go on living and even prospering well."
  –José Ortega y Gasset (attributed)

• "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
  –George Orwell

• "Power does not corrupt men. Fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
  –George Bernard Shaw

• "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice."
  –Adlai E. Stevenson

• "Corruption is strong friendship at the highest level."
  - Leonid S. Sukhorukov’’

• "The more corrupt the state, the more laws."
  –Publius Cornelius Tacitus

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