To promote Governance with Respect Ethics Accountability and Transparency (GREAT)

The following One-Liners Against Corruption are mostly well known thoughts (written and collected by H. D. Vinod, Director, Institute for Ethics and Economic Policy). Please encourage celebrities, VIPs, and top scientists to lend their names in support of these ideas. We hope that media outlets and newspapers will expose these ideas widely in public forums. Please feel free to print, read and circulate them. These are public domain, public service announcements with no copyrights claimed whatsoever.

1) Corruption hurts all, especially the weak.

2) Together, we can reduce bribery and corruption.

3) Fight against corruption begins at home by everyone refusing its tainted benefits.

4) There are no easy or permanent solutions to the bribery problem, only a vigilant citizenry can deter it.

5) Harm to the society from bribery and corruption is compounded over time, like compound interest.

6) Cynics who think that corruption cannot be reduced are cowards who do not wish to try.

7) Corruption hurts everyone and therefore everyone can and should participate in a fight against it.

8) Bribery and Corruption: Be intolerant; expose it (by Udayan Vinod).

9) Corruption brings inefficiency and rewards expediency. (by Udayan Vinod).

10) Those who are blinded by greed of corruption have no fear nor any shame, similar to those who are blinded by sexual lust. (by Rujuta Vinod based on a Sanskrit saying).

11) Corruption is the pornography of power.

12) You can serve your country best by helping to reduce corruption.

Please suggest new one-liners if you are willing to place them in public domain. We are looking for translations in many languages. We are looking for volunteers who will approach the celebrities, media and newspapers to lend their names to these or similar one-liners. If you use these one-liners, we would appreciate receiving an E-mail message to Vinod@fordham.edu so that we can encourage others.

Hindi Language Translation by Prof. Bhu Dev Sharma, Professor of Mathematics, Xavier University, New Orleans, LA 70125, USA. If Hindi fonts are not present, Try this htm file link

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Last Update on February 8, 2007.