Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Throw in neglect and politicization of the judicial system and you see the result: soaring rates of cocaine trafficking through Venezuela and worsening corruption of institutions.

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

The way to end corruption is a progressive, policy driven state with proper implementation.

They'll [China] probably be a fully developed nation. The road there just is not going to be that easy. You're going from a macromanaged, top-down economy to a market-managed, micromanaged type of economy, with all the potential corruption issues, SOE [state-owned enterprise] reform, and market reform that come with it.

Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.

To achieve any change in the minds of the youth, there must be reorientation in terms of materialistic tendencies, corruption and crime generally.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

We come out of Jewish-refugee, Holocaust stock, which means that our predecessors fled and we learned that systems of power are vulnerable to corruption and can treat the defenseless in a destructive fashion.

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

We create these boom-bust cycles by manipulating the money supply and the interest rates and directing it where it went in. And that is what happened with housing: pushed into housing combination of easy money plus all the regulations, and we created this boom-bust cycle, and corruption, because corruption goes with it, because you don't have the same discipline. So we've got to stop all that.

We did not organize press conferences and talk about fighting against corruption, we acted on the ground and brought changes in the schemes to fight corruption.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

We have to continue to confront the challenge of corruption within the public service.

When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and corruption.

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

98% of politicians are either corrupt or corruptible.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

A badge (police badge) isnt a hallmark of impunity, its a trademark of justice!

When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.

Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.