Top 100 Corrupt Quotes
#1. Agents are nasty scum. They're evil and divisive and pointless. They only survive because the rest of the sport is so corrupt and because leading football club people employ their sons in the job.
Simon Jordan
#2. As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Kevin Spacey
#3. for the 2016 election, the political war chest accumulated by the Kochs and their small circle of friends was projected to be $889 million, completely dwarfing the scale of money that was considered deeply corrupt during the Watergate days. The
Jane Mayer
#4. I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people.
Charles Barkley
#5. Death is the only sovereign whom no partiality can warp, and no price corrupt.
Charles Caleb Colton
#6. The impression of Pakistan is that people are corrupt. I don't think they are as corrupt as they are made out to be. I can look you in the eye and tell you I've never bribed anybody.
Mian Muhammad Mansha
#7. D.C. is more corrupt than Hollywood. It really is.
Robin Wright
#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. It's a phenomenon that I've often observed without understanding it. Inside someone another person can exist, a fully formed, generous, and trustworthy individual who never comes to light except in glimpses, because he is surrounded by a corrupt, dyed-in-the-wool, repeat offender.
Peter Hoeg
#10. 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
#11. However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.
J.C. Ryle
#12. He fights for his life but still remains everybody's friend. He "knows" whom to corrupt, whom to avoid, whose compassion to arouse, whom to resist.
Primo Levi
#13. 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
#15. Poetry is on earth to make you serene, not corrupt your mind, thoughts,or emotions
Lisa See
#16. Many people would fight against the idea that they are corrupt. While in the real sense, they are corrupt because they don't live by the principles of honesty and truth.
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Instead of attacking people, we need to love people. It lights a fire under me because it's a reminder of why we need the Gospel. Our hearts are so corrupt.
Trip Lee
#18. Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac
#19. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Matthew McConaughey
#20. The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.
Bruce Sterling
#21. I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.
Jay Weatherill
#22. Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?" I enquired.
"Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.
Jane Cousins
#23. My mind was consumed with the idea of purdah. From behind it no call for help could be heard. An abandoned species was trapped in a forbidden world. Everything corrupt happened under the shroud, when it was off a faceless and nameless woman appeared.
Tehmina Durrani
#24. How oft, in nations gone corrupt,
And by their own devices brought down to servitude,
That man chooses bondage before liberty.
Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton
#25. I often hear people talk about how corrupt their politicians are, it makes me laugh because, the very same people who are complaining are just as corrupt. When they get to those same places of authority, they do exactly the same thing for which they were complaining against the previous politicians.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. You can see signs of a roaring economy. You can sense economic growth. You know it's happening. You're part of it. It is affecting you. Seventy-five percent of Americans think the government is corrupt.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. It's Fitzgerald's thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.
Maureen Corrigan
#28. I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.
Dan Abnett
#29. Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
#30. Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
Mary Karr
#31. The subjugation of news by entertainment seriously harms our democracy: It leads to dysfunctional journalism that fails to inform the people. And when the people are not informed, they cannot hold government accountable when it is incompetent, corrupt, or both.
Al Gore
#32. F. Scott Fitzgerald has an indespensible quote: 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at once and still retain the ability to function'. Or, as I like to call it, 'O.J. killed his wife, and the police are corrupt.'
Bill Maher
#33. In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic papacy developed into an abusive, corrupt, autocratic, totalitarian system by claiming apostolic authority through a supposed line of succession back to Peter.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#34. The USA is corrupt in many areas with law enforcement and utility companies being two of those.
Steven Magee
#35. Historians of European royalty have written of the king's 'two bodies' : one mortal and corrupt; the other divine, abstract and timeless.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#36. If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#37. As long as ordinary citizens are as corrupt as the politicians in their daily lifestyle, the country will continue to suffer.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
Lev Grossman
#39. O, how easy it would appear to be to live in simplicity and love, and yet how difficult it is for our corrupt hearts to live in love!
John Of Kronstadt
#40. 27Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.
Anonymous
#41. 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
#42. Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
#43. People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
Paddy Ashdown
#44. If we place an honest, though less wealthy person on a higher pedestal than a corrupt, yet rich individual, we will have contributed to India's progress. And
Chetan Bhagat
#45. I refuse to bring my son up in a world corrupt as it is now.
Dick Dale
#46. Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.
Stokely Carmichael
#47. Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
Walter Lippmann
#48. The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.
Scott Hahn
#49. Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win ... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#50. The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.
Donald Trump
#51. Even if I did feel bad for Darian, I wouldn't admit it. Siding with anyone who violates The Protectorate would make me Noncompliant. That would make me almost as corrupt as him. To side with those who violate The Protectorate is strictly forbidden and punishable by a week in the Terrorscape.
Shannon Duffy
#52. Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to half-believe them.
Robert Payne
#53. Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.
James Bryant Conant
#54. Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer! This has been the cry of all cities to man ...
Alfred De Musset
#55. Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
Mark McKinnon
#56. Power does not corrupt people, people corrupt people.
William Gaddis
#57. Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally.
Steve Ditko
#58. That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine
#59. The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
William Shakespeare
#60. Yes, I would be very honored to corrupt you in whatever ways you like.
Cara McKenna
#61. Voters thereby prove themselves bad and indeed corrupt judges of such issues and often they even prove themselves bad judges of their own long-run interests, for it is only the short-run promise that tells politically and only short-run rationality that asserts itself effectively.
Joseph Alois Schumpeter
#62. Make use of radio, TV and films discriminatively; only for programs that will enhance our knowledge and culture. Television is tele-visham (tele-poison, in Malayalam). If we are not careful, it can corrupt our culture, damage our eyes and drain away our time.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#63. Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.
Loretta Lynch
#64. If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democracy, which is after all not a natural state.
John Ralston Saul
#65. Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Frank Herbert
#66. Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.
Thomas Jefferson
#67. Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.
William Gaddis
#68. shady businessmen and corrupt government
John Osburg
#69. We need some honesty and sincerity instead of corrupt government in Washington.
Jack Kevorkian
#70. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.
Daniel Horan
#71. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Benjamin Disraeli
#72. It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
George Bernard Shaw
#73. 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
#74. There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey
#75. The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion ... but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
J.R. Miller
#76. When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.
Steven Magee
#77. There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
Peter Straub
#78. The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.
Lori Lansens
#79. I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak.
Zooey Deschanel
#80. Since corrupt people unite amongst themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same.
Leo Tolstoy
#81. There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.
Oscar Wilde
#82. Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right ...
That flawed utterance is dearer to God!
Rumi
#83. I won't let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.
Jack White
#84. If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.
Samuel Johnson
#85. The Tammany guys, many of them were corrupt. They were still around when I was a boy. You knew the Tammany guys' name.
Pete Hamill
#86. It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.
Bernard Hopkins
#87. 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
#88. We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.
Zweli Mkhize
#89. Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.
Horace
#90. The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers.
Louis Thomas McFadden
#91. The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have been fixed.
Matt Taibbi
#92. A realistic recognition of the human condition is that it is corrupt beyond belief. What do you suppose would happen if the police all took a week off?
Frederick Lenz
#93. Weakness is a contagion, one breath of it can corrupt a man whole and entire. Now though, even with all the evil in me, I don't know if I could teach such lessons to a son of mine.
Mark Lawrence
#94. In science, ideology tends to corrupt; absolute ideology, [corrupts] absolutely. - Robert Nisbet
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#95. I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.
Boman Irani
#96. Organic farming is about buying out of a corrupt, illegal and dishonest system.
Jerry Brown
#97. If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
#98. During the 19th century, Iranians lost vast territories in disastrous wars, and corrupt monarchs sold everything of value in the country to foreigners.
Stephen Kinzer
#99. There's already been black presidents who've been corrupt, so it doesn't strike me that having a black man in office means he's going to be the Messiah.
Lupe Fiasco
#100. [N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Samuel Adams
