Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

You want to play in the big boys’ yard, you need to follow the rules.

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive that starts the corruption of the files.

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

All one great big lie.

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

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.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

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?

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

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 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 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.

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 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.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

Countries are like fruit-the worms are always inside.

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, 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 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.

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

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

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

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

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

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I am against government by crony.