Corruption Quotes

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. (Eduard Shevardnadze)
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. View quote
Kurt Cobain
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher. View quote
Abdul Kalam
I think very poorly of United Russia. United Russia is the party of corruption, the party of crooks and thieves. And it is the duty of every patriot and citizen of our country to make sure that this party is destroyed. View quote
Alexei Navalny
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The corruption of people is to behave in an inhuman way. View quote
Alan Bullock
We need the nation of equal citizenship. We need a nation that fights corruption, a nation, a state where law rules, a nation where those who abuse their authority are questioned. We want to retrieve our nation, and we want to become citizens in a new world. View quote
Tawakkol Karman
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. View quote
Georges Bernanos
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)
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money. View quote
Lisa Bonet
Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues. View quote
Ajay Devgan
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. View quote
Barry White
No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery. View quote
Harriet Ann Jacobs
I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids. View quote
Kelly Preston
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. View quote
Ray Davies
Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. View quote
Sherrod Brown
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Whatever form it has, it [matter] will be disposed to receive another form; it never leaves off moving and casting off the form which it has in order to receive another. ...It is therefore clear that all corruption, destruction, or defect comes from matter. View quote
Maimonides
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe. (Marcus Aurelius)
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the State [People's Republic of China]. View quote
Xi Jinping
No government functions without the grease of corruption. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
People get a sense that something is really wrong in government and in our culture. There is a corruption, not only in politics, but of spirit as well, when people are so quick to be violent with one another. I think everybody would like to be able to find a solution to make things better. We have the desire to reform inside of us, and we get frustrated because we don't know how to change things, even if it comes to our own behavior. Sometimes you get frustrated because you don't know how to stop that thing that you know is either hurtful to yourself or someone else. View quote
Jennifer Beals
Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy. View quote
Mengistu Haile Mariam