Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Corruption is a fact of life in America as in Afganistan, but as American citizens, if we are white, we tend to experience it as an opportunity cost. I live in Washington, DC, where the city council is notoriously corrupt. But how do I experience that? Maybe in streets that are not as well paved as they could be, maybe in a bridge that costs a lot more money than it should have. That's a little bit abstract - shocking, of course - but still abstract.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.

Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

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

Corruption is not a Canadian value!

Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

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.

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.

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.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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