Non Corrupt Quotes

#1. Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.

Rowan Williams

#2. We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Gore Vidal

#3. In a pure capitalist system, an institution as moronic and corrupt as Bank of America would be swiftly punished by the market - the executives would get to loot their own firms once, then they'd be looking for jobs again.

Matt Taibbi

#4. Messages of instant gratification leads to a corrupt society

Sunday Adelaja

#5. It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Menander

#6. Scoundrels will be corrupt and unconcerned citizens apathetic under even the best constitution.

William Earl Maxwell

#7. It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

Julian Assange

#8. It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

James Monroe

#9. Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

Horace Mann

#10. Most of the members are positively corrupt, and the others are really singularly incompetent.

Edmund Morris

#11. You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

Blaise Pascal

#12. A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too.

Amish Tripathi

#13. Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed ...

Kage Baker

#14. 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

#15. A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

Kiran Desai

#16. Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Anais Nin

#17. I would that you were either less beautiful, or less corrupt. Such perfect beauty does not suit such imperfect morals.
[Lat., Aut formosa fores minus, aut minus improba vellem.
Non facit ad mores tam bona forma malos.]

Ovid

#18. There is a Cult of Western evangelists and self-righteous crusaders who are determined to dislodge non-Western nations and usurp their governments.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#19. Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world by intensifying ethnic difference and separating people under names such as 'Shia and Sunni', 'Arabs and non Arabs'.

Ali Khamenei

#20. Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

Sally Mann

#21. Chicago - this vicious, stinking zoo, this mean-grinning, Mace-smelling boneyard of a city; an elegant rockpile monument to everything cruel and stupid and corrupt in the human spirit.

Hunter S. Thompson

#22. Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

Joseph Addison

#23. controversial performance as a corrupt detective in Training Day - would be seen holding the Oscar for best actor, almost four decades after Poitier's

Wil Haygood

#24. President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.

Jay Leno

#25. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#26. Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Juvenal

#27. Foreign countries should impose sanctions against Putin's corrupt network.

Alexei Navalny

#28. Through history it's the novelist who has felt affinity for the violent man who lives in the dark. Where are your sympathies? With the colonial police, the occupier, the rich landlord, the corrupt government, the militaristic state? Or with the terrorist?

Don DeLillo

#29. Humble birth did not retard his genius, nor high place corrupt his soul.

Cass Gilbert

#30. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Walter Savage Landor

#31. Reflection is not the evil; but a reflective condition and the deadlock which it involves, by transforming the capacity for action into a means of escape from action, is both corrupt and dangerous, and leads in the end to a retrograde movement.

Soren Kierkegaard

#32. The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Thomas Paine

#33. What quantities evil - the amount of blood spilled the body count, the intentional destruction of innocent masses? Regardless of how evil is defined, there will always be those in power to discriminately judge it and their corrupt policing forces that enforce it.

Mahima Martel

#34. It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Gloria Steinem

#35. In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

Marquis De Sade

#36. I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.

Carly Fiorina

#37. Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Karl Lagerfeld

#38. A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Hannah More