Corruption Quotes

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

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

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.

The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

I see corruption as a mortal enemy for young democracies.

...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

Money you haven't earned is not good for you.

It looked incredibly credible!

The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.

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

Purity without balance is its own corruption.

In search of love and music My whole life has been Illumination Corruption And diving, diving, diving, diving, Diving down to pick up every shiny thing

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.

I am against government by crony.

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?

The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.

Whatever has "wit enough to keep it sweet" defies corruption and outlasts all time; but the wit must be of that outward and visible order which needs no introduction or demonstration at our hands.

At length corruption, like a general flood (So long by watchful ministers withstood), Shall deluge all; and avarice, creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

It's an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

This is the disease in America. It's not just spending. It's not just taxes. It's not just corruption. It is progressivism. And it is in both Parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

Based on my experience, I can say that India country can be freed of corruption.

The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

The business pages of American newspapers should not read like a scandal sheet.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

Corruption can only prosper with a people's ignore-ance.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

I have always taken measures to fight corruption, to attract investment, to create a better context for investment in Greece.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

Dealing with corruption and staying calm is a talent most of us in India have mastered and learnt to live with.

I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right.

Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains.

The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he's at a high point right now.

The traveller who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto, or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women who live under it.

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.

In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.