Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

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

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

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.

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.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

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

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

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

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

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 looked incredibly credible!

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

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

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

Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside.

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

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.

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.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

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)

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

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.

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.

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.