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Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

Corruption is just another form of tyranny.

Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

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 investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.

Corruption exists everywhere.

In any country, corruption tends to increase when more respectable means of social advancement break down.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.