Top 93 Corrupt Corruption Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Nothing threatens a corrupt system like a free mind.
Suzy Kassem
#5. 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
#6. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.
Steven Magee
#7. You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
M. Beddow Bayly
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.
Steven Magee
#16. 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
#17. When interacting with corporate government agents, always assume that they are corrupt until proven otherwise.
Steven Magee
#18. The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.
Steven Magee
#19. Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.
Robert Black
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
#23. Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Henry Kissinger
#24. 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
#25. Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts ... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
#26. To survive in a corrupt country, you need to be the son of a king or be king yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#27. Stand up for what is right against the wrong.
Suzy Kassem
#28. 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
#29. It is not necessary to corrupt people's morals. Their morals have been corrupting them for years.
Marty Rubin
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.
(Marco)
Iain Pears
#33. A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.
Farhan Akhtar
#34. It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#35. All things can corrupt perverse minds.
Ovid
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Through transparency we expose corruption, but then there is no action taken against the corrupt.
Aruna Roy
#39. 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
#40. Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.
Suzy Kassem
#41. Truth will never shine from a heart filled with corruption and lies.
Suzy Kassem
#42. 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
#45. The Corrupt Officer has a Price and the Honest Officer has Integrity
Gary York
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
#51. 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
#52. When a plutocracy is disguised as a democracy, the system is beyond corrupt.
Suzy Kassem
#53. Modern human evolution has reached the point of reporting corruption to the corrupt.
Steven Magee
#54. Power is a corruption, and any society which operates from a power base is a corrupt society.
Jean Ure
#55. The corporate government is heavily influenced by the utility company cartel.
Steven Magee
#57. A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.
Horace
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.
Steven Magee
#64. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.
Christopher Mart
#65. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Tacitus
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.
William Earl Maxwell
#71. Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued.
Felix O. Hartmann
#73. Corruption hates what is not corrupt.
Paul Park
#74. The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.
Steven Magee
#75. If you want to live in a state known for its corruption, come to Arizona!
Steven Magee
#76. 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
#77. Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
Evan Esar
#78. If we elect the same corrupt politicians every time, that's a very clear message that we don't want a change.
Sukant Ratnakar
#79. The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
Steven Magee
#80. Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.
Steven Magee
#81. 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
#82. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#83. Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society
Sunday Adelaja
#84. I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.
Paul Ryan
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.
Suzy Kassem
#93. 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
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