Corruption Quotes

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds...

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will beli...

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I mi...

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round ...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, d...

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never disco...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended benef...

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, ...

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership ...

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sur...

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privi...

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infi...

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, n...

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the so...

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselv...

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire ...

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the sta...

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome...

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreter...

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a poli...

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing...

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line...

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.'Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is ...

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There ...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr...

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billiona...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return t...

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...