Best 874 quotes in «corruption quotes» category

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.

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.

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.

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

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Realism is a corruption of reality.

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

Reject every form of corruption.

REJECT ALL FORMS OF CORRUPTION THAT DIVERT RESOURCES FROM THE POOR

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

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

Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don`t trust ambiguity. John Wayne

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

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

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.

That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident.

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.