Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption that de-idealizes the species and keeps us everlastingly mindful of the matter we are.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

I am against government by crony.

I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

I believe Salman Khurshid could not have embezzled Rs 71 lakh...It is a very small amount for a central minister.

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.

I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

I don't really think there have been transitional periods to socialism. There have been efforts, but they have usually been destroyed by a combination of external force and internal corruption.

If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic.

If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity.

It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

It looked incredibly credible!

It`s corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

It's no secret that in Venezuela there is no division of powers and that many functionaries have put on blinders when looking at irregularities because they benefit from the revolution and its corruption.

Jonathan is one of the most corrupt Nigerians I ever investigated while at EFCC & his level of corruption even as deputy governor is just disturbing. PDP is just a disaster and a total failure. Change is the only panacea.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing public integrity cases and public corruption cases and bringing cases against sitting legislators

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.