Corruption is the absence of honesty and virtue.Usually,the society void of law and order is a corrupt society.In such societies people do not do their duties well and try to work for their personal benefits.Corrupt people do not abide by laws and adopt evil means to get their aims.They discard morality and good manners.The society where such people are in majority is called corrupt society.These people cause many evils in society.No measures can bring good fruit unless corruption is uprooted.Corruption is a flea that sucks the blood of the nation and the country.Pitiless measures should be taken to end corruption from society for the uplift of a country.
There are many causes of corruption.Anyhow the sole cause of corruption is to get more and more riches.People think corruption a shortcut to be prosperous.They adopt different evil ways to this end.Corruption has become a fashion in almost all the fields of life.
The most obvious cause of corruption is ignorance.In Pakistan a large number of people are ignorant.They do not know their rights and duties.They show no interest in national activities because they do not understand them.They have no sense to elect honest representatives.As a result corrupt people come to throne.These representatives instead of working for the welfare of society,struggle for their own interests.They do not bother to adopt proper means to get their ends.Rather they adopt corrupt means to get their objectives.Therefore corruption prevails in society.
Poverty is another cause of corruption.Poor people when cannot fulfill their needs fall prey to corruption.Their income is too short to fulfill their needs.The person,who cannot buy food and medicine for his children,does not pay any attention to morality.He can easily be tempted to evil deeds.
The unequal distribution of wealth is another cause of corruption.In Islamic society,a tax i.i. Zakat is taken from the rich and is given to the poor.In the great days of Islam there was no one so poor as to receive Zakat.Therefore the money of Zakat was spent on the works of public welfare.Now people do not pay Zakat and alms.And that has resulted in an unequal distribution of wealth.
The following measures can help to eradicate corruption from society.First of all,the government should take solid steps for the spread of education.Secondly,the government should improve the economic condition of the country.Better economic condition would end poverty from society.In this regard,government should encourage investment.Moreover,the punishment for the corrupt people should be severe.Anti-corruption department should be made active and effective for the eradication of corruption.
QUOTES ABOUT CORRUPTION
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.And if you gaze long enough into an abyss,the abyss will gaze back into you."-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Power does not corrupt.Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."
-John Steinbeck
"No matter how corrupt,greedy, and heartless our government,our corporations,our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become,the music will still be wonderful."
-Kurt Vonnegut,A Man Without a Country
"Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy,yet experience hath shewn,that even under the best forms,those entrusted with power have,in time, and by slow operations,perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be,to illuminate,as far as practicable,the minds of the people at large,....whence it becomes expedient for promoting the public happiness that those persons,whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue,should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth,birth or accidental condition of circumstance."
-Thomas Jefferson
