Top 93 Corrupt Corruption Quotes
#1. Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society
Sunday Adelaja
#2. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl Maxwell
#3. Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.
Narendra Modi
#4. Looking at a pure heart is like looking in to a mirror. All you will see is your own reflection. If you are corrupt, you will see corruption. If you are pure, you will see purity. But don't blame the mirror, all you are seeing is yourself.
- Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#5. My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.
Jakaya Kikwete
#7. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
#8. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.
Christopher Mart
#9. All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.
Steven Magee
#10. A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people, but those of multinational corporations.
Suzy Kassem
#11. When people who are seeking change start out, they are driven by commitment to a cause. But as internecine power struggles take over, one-time idealists fall prey to corruption. They become just as corrupt and manipulative as the system that they want to overthrow.
Anurag Kashyap
#12. Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.
Howard Dean
#13. In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation, but now represented my obliteration.
J.D. Stroube
#14. The government of my country snubs honest simplicity but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.
Mark Twain
#15. A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
Horace
#17. The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.
Steven Magee
#18. Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.
Jean Ure
#19. Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.
Steven Magee
#20. When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.
Suzy Kassem
#21. No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.
John Connolly
#22. Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
#23. In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.
Shekhar Kapur
#24. Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.
James A. Garfield
#25. I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
Richard J. Needham
#27. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.
Suzy Kassem
#28. Like other corrupt people, he would never realize that his punishment was in missing out on what he didn't know he could have.
Guy Mankowski
#29. 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.
Hannah Arendt
#30. In the corrupted currents of this world
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice,
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out the law. . .
(Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)
William Shakespeare
#31. PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
Paul Ryan
#32. When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
Steven Magee
#33. Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#35. Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
Felix O. Hartmann
#36. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#37. Corruption is the bane of Nigeria. Buhari is against corruption. Buhari is not corrupt. He is very clean and disciplined. Election rigging is worse than armed robbery. Buhari wants free, fair and credible elections in Nigeria.
Tam David-West
#38. Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.
Steven Magee
#39. The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
Steven Magee
#40. If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.
Sukant Ratnakar
#41. Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
Evan Esar
#42. Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.
Aravind Adiga
#43. If you want to live in a state known for its corruption, come to Arizona!
Steven Magee
#44. The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.
Steven Magee
#45. Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
Paul Park
#47. Donald T. Campbell explained in a renowned 1976 paper, The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
Nicholas Carr
#48. Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.
Steven Magee
#49. Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry Kissinger
#50. If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.
Gene Veith
#52. Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.
Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.
And why is that important? Because the banking system needs ever more loans in order to survive.
Chris Martenson
#53. Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.
Robert Black
#54. The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.
Steven Magee
#55. When interacting with corporate government agents, always assume that they are corrupt until proven otherwise.
Steven Magee
#56. 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.
Nuhu Ribadu
#57. It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.
Steven Magee
#58. If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt
and fueled even more than Hollywood by money
if that's possible.
Ben Affleck
#59. As for corruption, who's more corrupt - the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?
Don Winslow
#60. The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
M. Beddow Bayly
#62. There's so much corruption in America; there's so much corruption around the world. It's all coming to the surface thanks to the Internet, and thanks to the younger people who are saying, 'We don't like corrupt people.'
Jon Anderson
#63. Every phenomenon is a corrupt version of another, larger
phenomenon: time, a disease of eternity; history, a disease of
time; life, again, a disease of matter.
Then what is normal, what is healthy? Eternity? Which itself
is only an infirmity of God.
Emil Cioran
#64. My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.
George Weah
#65. You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#66. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.
Steven Magee
#67. No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.
Suzy Kassem
#69. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. Those who feel the pain of others are the most eligible for all joy of the world,
unfortunately this rule is too corrupt.
Kartik Mehta
#71. It might take an act of God to convince some Americans that parts of their government are corrupt, but at the same time, you cannot, under any circumstances, persuade an Iranian that his government is not corrupt!
Mahbod Seraji
#72. I realized that the legal system was corrupt when I went to court and the judge imposed a very short time limit on my evidence submission before removing my legal rights to free speech.
Steven Magee
#73. The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.
Steven Magee
#74. The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity
Gary York
#77. Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.
Robert Payne
#78. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
Suzy Kassem
#79. Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.
Suzy Kassem
#80. It is supposed that power corrupts,' the caterpillar said in a voice as untroubled as time itself. yet the powerful are often corrupt before they are powerful. In fact, I find that they too often become powerful by being corrupt. Whether real or perceived, a lack of power can also corrupt.
Frank Beddor
#81. Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
#82. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
#83. Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you to be corrupt. The solution is not, "Main Street, not Wall Street," but to change the system where Main Street cannot function without Wall Street.
Slavoj Zizek
#84. All things can corrupt perverse minds.
Ovid
#85. It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#86. A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar
#87. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)
Iain Pears
#88. Knowledge is power, isn't that what we say? But power corrupts. An institution based on knowledge and learning can't help but be a corrupt institution.
Sam Cabot
#89. The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#90. It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
Marty Rubin
#91. Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.
James Patterson
#92. Stand up for what is right against the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#93. To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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