“Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876)
“Corruption is the most dangerous public disease haunting the humanity, which diagnoses the public state of heath. The deeper is the corruption and corruption activities the sicker is the society and it needs a treatment.”
Speech of Prime Minister of RA Tigran Sargsyan at the conference on International anti-corruption day (9 December 2009) http://www.gov.am/en/speeches/1/item/2982/ <br class="br">2009
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