Peter Eigen quotes

  • We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.
    -- Peter Eigen

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  • Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.
    -- Peter Eigen

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  • Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

  • Everyone needs to understand that my work addresses existing problems, and one of the crucial problems in Russia today is corruption.

  • If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.

  • Crime, after all, can be a way of establishing identity or acquiring security - at least the magistrate addresses you by name.

  • It is not fools that I seek to address.

  • We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.

  • At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

  • The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  • All one great big lie.

  • Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

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