Corruption Quotes

He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part ...

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not tha...

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty...

[N]othing is more easily corrupted than an artist.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if yo...

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike ...

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and...

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choic...

Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being c...

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissectin...

How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...

The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the...

We have nothing to destroy," said Rud. "All these things are done for already. They are falling in a...

That City of yours is a morbid excrescence. Wall Street is a morbid excrescence. Plainly it's a thin...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of co...

It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the olde...

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstr...

Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take aw...

Suddenly I was tired of Lotterman; he was a phony and he didn't even know it. He was forever yapping...

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers...

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

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't f...

A new problem appears: devices that optimize the performance of the human body for the purpose of pr...

... In the discourse of today's financial backers of research, the only credible goal is power. Scie...

. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, ...

If you're patriotic, stand up for the Bill of Rights because once they strip your rights from you, y...

This is a matter of public health. The public was sick and tired of DeLay and his corruption.

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObsc...

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never ri...

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...

As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the...

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

That is how war corrupts us. It plays on our pride in our own free will.

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and n...

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

[The wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced hi...

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds...

[I]t kind of terrified me to imagine myself spending the rest of my life tinkering on the margins of...

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will beli...

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...

The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I mi...

If, though full of respect for social conventions and never overstepping the bounds they draw round ...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

Sometimes I felt the bloated Toad, hideous and pampered with the poisonous vapours of the dungeon, d...

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

To an atheist all writings tend to atheism: he corrupts the most innocent matter with his own venom.

I must have had some high object in life, for I feel unbounded strength within me. But I never disco...

I've an insatiable craving inside me that consumes everything and makes me regard the sufferings and...

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social ju...

Somebody had said how only 15 paisa of the one rupee sent from the Centre reached the intended benef...

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, ...

Might and wrong combined, like iron magnetized, are endowed with irresistible attraction.

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership ...

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, ...

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault...

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sur...

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

Be informed, also, that this good and savoury Parish is the home of Hectors, Trapanners, Biters who ...

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

Darling, no one would ever dream of performing an operation on a child without testing it first. And...

They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privi...

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Ma...

The depths cleared again. Something moved in them that was not a board. It rose slowly, with an infi...

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, n...

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the so...

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselv...

I have done many impious things--no great ruler can do otherwise. I have put the good of the Empire ...

I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the sta...

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

A DEAD STATESMANI could not dig: I dared not rob:Therefore I lied to please the mob.Now all my lies ...

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia get...

I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome...

An assassin can be found for every president. And for every prophet there are a thousand interpreter...

It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a poli...

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing...

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line...

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he...

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.'Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is ...

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There ...

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...

Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...

There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border...

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. Nature has been kinder to Mr...

We know something about billionaire consumption, but it is hard to measure some of it. Some billiona...

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return t...