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The Zhou believed that the Shang ruling house had become morally corrupt and that the Shang leaders' loss of virtue entitled their own house to take over. [18] The overthrow of the Shang Dynasty, they said, was in accordance with the mandate given by Heaven.
As of 2025, the United States scores 65 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean") according to Transparency International's 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index. When ranked by score, the United States ranks 28th among the 180 countries in the index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector.
Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain.
We spent the better part of the weekend playing Icomania, the free-to-play iOS and Android game that challenges players to guess the correct word that describes people, places, characters and brands.
The quote, “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices" is misattributed to George Orwell.
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Righteousness is the quality or state of "being morally right or justifiable" [1] rooted in religious or divine law with a broader spectrum of moral correctness, justice, and virtuous living as dictated by a higher authority or set of spiritual beliefs.
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