Corruption Quotes

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in...

Not even ten additional years of slavery could have done so much to throttle the thrift of the freed...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto eithe...

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be...

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.'I like that idea. It's reassuring. I...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me...

The passion for defiling things was inborn in her. It was not enough for her to destroy them, she ha...

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the gove...

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale,Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs,And solid p...

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exe...

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption a...

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they...

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligen...

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - ...

Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government ...

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only prais...

People often don't understand the engine that drives corruption. Particularly in India, they assume ...

Rather to my surprise, I found myself genuinely indignant at the suggestion that murder was to be re...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of...

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know y...

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and f...

Fascism is when corporations become the government.

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. W...

How quickly we come around,' Sazed whispered. 'It wasn't long ago that men were forced to watch the ...

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reje...

Power does not alter a man's character. It merely reveals it.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a le...

In the end I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who ...

During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton w...

Inevitably came the time when he angrily repudiated his former paladin Yasser Arafat. In fact, he de...

The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a b...

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

I think that God that we have created and allowed to shape our culture through, essentially Christia...

Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. ...

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken.Infal...

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and ...

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intell...

When men in power decide that things need to be rebalanced at any cost, the violence is never brief ...

In even a clear heart, some righteous acts of the harder kind can stir up a sediment of guilt, but t...

The word corruption does not arouse the moral revulsion that it should. We think of it as more a nui...

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic funct...

Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human bei...

Just for a handful of silver he left us Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part ...

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty...

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choic...

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being c...

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the...

We have nothing to destroy," said Rud. "All these things are done for already. They are falling in a...

That City of yours is a morbid excrescence. Wall Street is a morbid excrescence. Plainly it's a thin...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstr...

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take aw...

Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping...

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers...

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, y...

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never ri...