Corruption Quotes

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

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

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.

It is for the good of states that men should be deluded by religion.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

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.

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Since politics — until recently — has been a man’s world, men, as a whole are responsible for its corruption.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.

We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

Corruption is another tax on the consumer and it is the Maltese families who are forking the money to make up for such corruptions.

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

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

The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver. . . . Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?

Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

We do not need international help to stop corruption, we need strong Louisiana Leadership.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

I want to rid the country of corruption and return our economic environment.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

If there is anything material and we're not reporting it, we'll be breaking the law. We don't break the law.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Realism is a corruption of reality.

Some explanations of a crime are not explanations: they're part of the crime.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

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

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises.

The Syrian army is tired of corruption. It is tired of party nepotism. It is becoming very angry with those it blames for the war.

Corruption never has been compulsory.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.