Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

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 fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

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)

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

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

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

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

Oil-for-food shows the need for reform. There was fraud, corruption, mismanagement

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

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

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

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Our leaders should start talking as leaders. They talk like puppets. It might take us another 100 years to come out of this phase of corruption and mismanagement. But the good thing is that we are more aware, and more Africans are talking about these things.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Real change begins with ridding Washington of corruption, of which there's plenty going around.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Reject every form of corruption.

Russia has a strategy of creating the conditions that give rise to corruption, then exploiting that corruption to its own benefit.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

Senator Chris Dodd unveiled his plan to reduce corruption in the Senate. He's retiring.

Salaries are a huge area of corruption.