Quotes About World Corruption

#1. When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the Western is a wonderful genre because it is usually a story of a lone hero fighting against corruption in a dangerous world.

Caroline Lawrence

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Consider this pronouncement, inscribed on an Assyrian tablet circa 2800 B.C.: Our earth is degenerate these days ... bribery and corruption abound, children no longer obey their parents, every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Since politics - until recently - has been a man's world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

Bertha Knight Landes

#6. There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

Carla H. Krueger

#7. Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.

Hassan Blasim

#8. All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Bill Vaughan

#9. 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

#10. The function of the West is to turn bodies and minds into products. It cannot understand that the rest of the world holds this to be an obscenity, a corruption of our nirvanic nature.

John Burdett

#11. Weakness and corruption isn't in the world," Clary snapped. "It's in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out. And you're planning to kill them all.

Cassandra Clare

#12. Evil and suffering are real ... They aren't an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we all share in its brokenness. Most of all, we share in its tragic legacy of disease and death.

Billy Graham

#13. Isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it.

Anthony Doerr

#14. It was a love that for years had tried to hide from her the difficulties and the corruption that existed in the world, ignoring the fact that one day she would have to find this out, and would then be defenseless against them.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Greed and corruption isn't in the world.It's in the people.

Suzanne Collins

#16. Where neither go wrong, the naive only see the world as a victim of bad doctrine; the cynic only sees good doctrine as a victim of the world.

Criss Jami

#17. If you saved yourself, you might also save those around you, those you loved. And since you would do anything in the world to save those you loved, you did anything in the world to save yourself. And because there was no choice, equally there was no possibility of avoiding moral corruption. -

Julian Barnes

#18. All around the world, there is corruption, tribalism and division, as many find it easier to pick on those that are different, which is why we need to hold tightly to the good in this world.

Ger Duany

#19. Let us remember that those who are made partakers of the divine nature will manifest their high and holy relationship in their intercourse with others, and make it evident by their daily walk and conversation that they have escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. There is a lot of corruption all over the world and not only when it comes to illegal wildlife trade! There are a few ways to ensure this stops: If there are no customers, there will be no trade.

Jane Goodall

#21. I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.

Douglas Coupland

#22. To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage.

Xi Jinping

#23. The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.

David Remnick

#24. Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

David Cameron

#25. Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

Ueda Akinari

#26. For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Bruce Springsteen

#27. I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I.

Pawan Mishra

#28. The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Edward Gibbon

#29. No truth, no equality. No equality, no justice. No justice, no peace. No peace, no love. No love, only darkness.

Suzy Kassem

#30. Mystics were about as common as two-headed unicorns. The few who existed lived apart from the world of men, remaining untainted by influence and corruption. Having a wolf as her best friend demonstrated the sort of wisdom he appreciated.

Michael J. Sullivan

#31. Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

Yvonne Pierre

#32. Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching." - From an ancient Assyrian tablet.

Sidney Homer

#33. This world is very good as if we do good deeds then we will get its fruits. World is bitter for those who are live their life with corruption or sins.

Rahman Baba

#34. Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural - they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise - a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

Randy Alcorn

#35. The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

#36. Love hadn't existed in this world. Only hate, deceit and lies, but by letting him in I'd let all of that crumble.
By letting me in he'd done the same, and now we were engaged in an even deadlier game than before.

Cassandra Giovanni

#37. At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#38. The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption.

Al Sharpton

#39. Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

George Ayittey

#40. The world is full of corruption, and deceit, and deviltry - chock full of it.

James Montgomery Bailey

#41. With the growing corruption of Adarlan and the king's campaign to hunt them down and execute them, the faeries and Fae fled, seeking shelter in the wild, untouched places of the world.

Sarah J. Maas

#42. 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

#43. And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

Warren Jeffs

#44. None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

Morris West

#45. 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

#46. The United States in many ways resembles a Third World country - far more elevated, but it has many of those structural characteristics: the extreme inequality of wealth, the deterioration of infrastructure because it only serves poor people, predatory operations, huge corruption, and so on.

Noam Chomsky

#47. It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Edward S. Greenberg

#48. If our current barbaric world spirals into greater corruption and brutality, our descendants may become so cruel and so morally perverse that they cross time to watch us suffer, bearing orgasmic witness to the bloodbaths from which their sick civilization grew.

Dean Koontz

#49. When the corruption seems to go all the way to the end of the world, the only good approach is through the front door with a gun in each hand.

Mira Grant

#50. The only difference between Detroit and the Third World in terms of corruption is Detroit don't have no goats in the streets.

Charlie LeDuff

#51. The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.

A.B. Simpson

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

Kelly Preston

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to eradicate all corruptions in this world.
Master of Stupidity: Let it be a bit! Otherwise you'll make us jobless for good.

Toba Beta

#56. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

Wendell Berry

#57. All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there's too much corruption in the world

Aristotle.

#58. You would be surprised at how many corporations "none of your business" applies to!

Steven Magee

#59. Will make Delhi a corruption-free , world class city.

Arvind Kejriwal

#60. This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging - bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Claire Messud

#61. Werner wonders in the dead of night, isn't life a kind of corruption? A child is born, and the world sets in upon it. Taking things from it, stuffing things into it. Each bite of food, each particle of light entering the eye - the body can never be pure.

Anthony Doerr

#62. A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.

Robertson Davies

#63. Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of this country, one of the richest on earth, get poorer each year?

James Morcan

#64. 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

#65. Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune ... has already brought him acquittal!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#66. There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

David Remnick

#67. There is no world without you in it. Nothing. I'm not talking about despair. I've lost people. This isn't me being a child. There is one universe. Just one. And it's between us. If you destroy that universe, you destroy me. Do you understand what I'm saying?

C.D. Reiss

#68. There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#69. Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions.

Robert Payne

#70. inspired him to bear witness to a world which was bleeding with injustice and intolerance and petty corruption.

David Lagercrantz

#71. The price for standing up for Truth, no matter how severe, will always be less than the price our souls will be penalized for not speaking up for our conscience. There is no greater crime in the universe than silencing your conscience.

Suzy Kassem

#72. How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.

Bryan Davis