Corruption Quotes

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

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.

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.

Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known.

Books are savaged and careers destroyed by surly snots who write anonymous reviews and publishers can't be bothered to protest this institutionalized corruption.

Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.

Stable markets, unstable world. Efficiency. Everybody hears about it. It's enough to make you want to be pro-inefficiency and pro-corruption.

The bureaucracy has grown such powerful roots in Russia, and corruption is so widespread, that people from opposition have no interest in changing anything.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

Salaries are a huge area of corruption.

But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh.

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

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

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.

He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption

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.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

We now have a national reputation for corruption.

You look across this country people are fed up with Washington. This [2016] election was the American people saying, enough already with the corruption in Washington and it's both parties.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, was above corruption so long as human beings were involved.

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

When people lose faith in the natural goodness of the human character, the lack of trust in spiritual goodness, that is one reason why corruption has become so widespread today.

Fighting with corruption is highly, is an issue, is a problem. It's highly on the agenda in our country.

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

The worst affected from corruption is the common man.

Why should it be mandatory for people to give interviews. I request state governments to remove the process of interviews for minor jobs to end corruption in getting jobs.

I promise to deliver a corruption-free India... people have chosen our government to get rid of black money.

We have a circle of corruption and impunity that is too strong.

Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978.

The lightning spread of 'Western-style' gambling overseas has increased the problems of addicted and problem gamblers, organized crime and alleged corruption in Asia and the Middle East

Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country. It's kleptocracy, it's corruption, it's a nation that's really only dependent upon oil and gas for their economy.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

In ancient Israel and Rome the judge had appeared as a stand-in for the divine, and corruption was a blinding of the representative of the divine.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

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.

Education is a vast sea of lies, waste, corruption, crackpot theorizing, and careerist log-rolling.

Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.