Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

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

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.

I am against government by crony.

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

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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

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.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

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.