Quotes About Corruption

#1. Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#2. When the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.

Montesquieu

#3. A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.

Harry Markopolos

#4. There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

Jeff Merkley

#5. Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Ron Paul

#7. Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos

#9. Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Matt Taibbi

#10. Corruption has reached an unacceptable level. It devours resources that could be devoted to the citizens. It impedes the proper carrying out of market rules and penalizes the honest and capable.

Sergio Mattarella

#11. There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

Thomas Paine

#12. Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Dana Spiotta

#13. The corruption in Iraq has nothing to do with ideas - it has to do with the regime and institutional structures and power.

Elliott Colla

#14. Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

Michel De Montaigne

#15. They think you can't feel anything, because they've forgotten how. You're very, very dangerous, I get that, and you're prone to some very theatrical brooding, but don't let yourself mistake that for some kind of inner corruption. They see themselves in you and are blinded.

Holly Black

#16. For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

Mike Huckabee

#18. The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#19. Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. J.H. Blunt.

Arundhati Roy

#20. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption.

Carl Jung

#21. It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain

#22. Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

Jerrie Brock

#23. You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

Robert Fulghum

#24. There are too many professed Christians who never get "wrought up" about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.

Billy Graham

#25. Some of what you see, my child, may make you affraid, revolted even, but you must remember that all life is born of corruption. The reborn can rise only from death and decay. Resurrection springs only from the tomb.

Karen Maitland

#26. It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we become; indeed, many of us are only saved by timely death from moral petrification, if not from moral corruption.

H. Rider Haggard

#27. I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything much to do with his corruption.
His personal motives were freedom and pleasure, and he misread them both.

Wallace Stegner

#28. The wholesale corruption of social relationships, even the most intimate, is an essential part of Shakespeare's chilling exposure of authoritarian politics.

William Shakespeare

#29. Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

Milton Friedman

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

William Earl Maxwell

#32. You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

Michele Bachmann

#33. As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.

Steve Forbes

#34. As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu's death was not a profit-generating enterprise.

Katherine Boo

#35. Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

Robert Charles Wilson

#36. The only decent daily paper of record in France is the online 'Mediapart,' which exposes graft and corruption in high places and is feared by the establishment.

Tariq Ali

#37. The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell.

Sarah Brownlee

#38. Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.

Louise Penny

#39. Television cannot film corruption. Television cannot spend five days on a rattling railway train, talking endlessly. Television needs excitement, it needs an angle, it needs a 'sound bite.

Paul Theroux

#40. Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

Charles Simeon

#41. Our sex is called timid and weak; believe it no more! We tremble at a spider, but the black monster, corruption, we hug to our arms in sport!

Friedrich Schiller

#42. For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian.

Ama Ata Aidoo

#43. If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.

Suzanne La Follette

#44. It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

Samuel Bowers

#45. If you talk about corruption, you can talk about a lot of things in life.

Rafael Benitez

#46. There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it.

Travis Kalanick

#47. liars ultimately destroy the things they lie to protect, and corruption, ambition, and betrayal inevitably betray themselves, as well.

David Weber

#48. 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

#49. The kind of corruption the media talk about, the kind the Supreme Court was concerned about, involves the putative sale of votes in exchange for campaign contributions.

James L. Buckley

#50. You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.

Barack Obama

#51. A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible.

Dean Koontz

#52. I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

William Gibson

#53. Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

#54. All one great big lie.

Bernard Madoff

#55. We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#56. The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.

Edward I. Koch

#57. Ex-Im is the lowest of low-hanging fruit in the sprawling tree of American political corruption. And yet House Republicans cannot seem to pluck it.

Anonymous

#58. Lijuan warned Raphael I'd make him a little bit mortal.'
'You have.' Quiet equanimity. 'And you worry you've weakened him. You have.'
Elena flinched. 'Elena.'
Shaking his head, Keir waited until she met his gaze again. 'Even an archangel needs a weakness - absolute power is a corruption.

Nalini Singh

#59. This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

Josiah Warren

#60. politics?" "A necessary evil that on rare occasions works without corruption, abuse, and waste.

J.D. Robb

#61. No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

H.L. Mencken

#62. 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

#63. As the corruption of our nature shews the absolute necessity of regeneration, so the absolute necessity of regeneration plainly proves the corruption of our nature; for why should a man need a second birth, if his nature were not quite marred in the first birth?

Thomas Boston

#64. Then, as they began to decline, they all experienced some peculiar similarities: an inordinate emphasis on sports and entertainment, a fixation with lifestyles of the rich and famous, political corruption, and the loss of a moral compass.

Ben Carson

#65. The horror of incest is not in the sexual act. but in the exploitation of children and the corruption of parental love. p4

Judith Lewis Herman

#66. I'm pushing for citizen equality not because of some moral idea, but because this is the essential way to crack the corruption that now makes it so Washington can't work.

Lawrence Lessig

#67. Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#68. By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

John Maynard Keynes

#69. If you have not seen a latest movie by taking a furlough, you have not really enjoyed the perks of a government job.

Girdhar Joshi

#70. 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

#71. I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
inhabits our frail blood.

William Shakespeare

#72. Corruption is simply crime without conscience.

George Richard Marek

#73. The air of innocence remained, still begging corruption.

Shayla Black

#74. He knew why he and the other children received ice cream only when newspaper photographers came to visit, and why food and clothing donated for the children got furtively resold outside the orphanage gate.

Katherine Boo

#75. I missed home like the ache of hunger, something in me left empty. I'd missed it every day since we crossed out of the valley, going over the mountains. Roots - yes. There were roots in my heart, as deep as any corruption could go.

Naomi Novik

#76. The Church has an excellent appetite.
She has swallowed whole countries and the question
Has never risen of indigestion.
Only the Church ... can take
Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#77. The corrupt begat corruption.

Steven Magee

#78. Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist, and you will sweep war from the earth.

Henry Ford

#79. Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#80. Come, I tell you. You have chattered enough about corruption. Now you shall look on it face to face!

Oscar Wilde

#81. The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

Ben Nicholson

#82. Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

Victor Hugo

#83. Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

K. Hari Kumar

#84. Every time there's elections, we hand out cash. Usually to both sides, but this time the government is going to win for sure. The opposition is in a total mess. So we just have to pay off the government, which is good for us.

Aravind Adiga

#85. If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school. The most powerful force against corruption is one person saying "no".

Strive Masiyiwa

#86. "One of the governor's complaints: federal rules that prohibit dispensary owners from putting their money in banks. "If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana," he said, make it an all cash business."

John Hickenlooper

#87. The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.

Tacitus

#88. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.

Fiona Apple

#89. Power cannot be maintained and effectively exercised without a moral structure accepted and practiced by all because power attracts the corruptible and because corruption destroys consensus.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#90. What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

Nenia Campbell

#91. I've seen all kinds of things done to dolphins in my travels around the world, but I have never seen anything as horrible as this dolphin drive hunt in Taiji.

Richard O'Barry

#92. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Jeff Miller

#93. Corrupt judicial practices in Russia, America, China, Great Britain, and other countries only vary by a single degree: the cost of services.

Christopher Mart

#94. I have chosen to fight against corruption in this country, though I have been advised not to because we are drawing closer to this year's Tripartite Elections. I know I am fighting against people who are smarter, wealthier and advanced.

Joyce Banda

#95. We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.

Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#96. The greatest domestic terrorists in the USA are either working for the corporate government or are funding it.

Steven Magee

#97. I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.

Kelly Preston

#98. All governments are corrupt and only thing that varies between them is the level of corruption.

Steven Magee

#99. 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

#100. Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?

Oakley Hall