Corruption Quotes - page 19

I have given them life instead of death, freedom instead of the cords of superstition, beauty and truth instead of corruption and exploitation. (Agatha Christie)
The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. View quote
Julian Assange
I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. View quote
Francis Bacon
The place of justice is an hallowed place; and therefore not only the bench, but the foot-place; and precincts and purprise thereof, ought to be preserved without scandal and corruption. View quote
Francis Bacon
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating. View quote
P. Chidambaram
Russia has a well-known reputation for corruption; unfortunately, I discovered that it was far worse than many had thought. While working in Moscow I learned that Russian oligarchs stole from shareholders, which included the fund I advised. View quote
Bill Browder
To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. View quote
G. Edward Griffin
The boxing world is full of all kinds of corruption. View quote
Al Sharpton
He got what he deserved, He led the party to one defeat after another. He led in an autocratic way and indulged in corruption. He is a prince without principles. View quote
Norodom Ranariddh
[In ancient Rome, ] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler. ... You sort of see these recurring themes where a democracy turns itself into a dictatorship, and it always seems to happen kind of in the same way, with the same kinds of issues, and threats from the outside, needing more control. A democratic body, a senate, not being able to function properly because everybody's squabbling, there's corruption. (George Lucas)
It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant. View quote
Martin Scorsese
The US doesn't understand South America." "The longer they put off admitting defeat and crticising themselves, the longer it will take for them to earn the confidence of their citizens." "If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak." View quote
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
It is not fair to those who fight corruption that they have to fight the aggressiveness, the impunity of the corrupt. View quote
Wole Soyinka
We look to Russia because Russia is our natural ally against the fiendish contamination and corruption from the west... Because we can see the commencement of our own national and socialist survival in an alliance with a truly national and socialist Russia. View quote
Joseph Goebbels
Israel will never get true security and safety through oppressing another people. A true peace can ultimately be built only on justice. We condemn the violence of suicide bombers, and we condemn the corruption of young minds taught hatred; but we also condemn the violence of military incursions in the occupied lands, and the inhumanity that won't let ambulances reach the injured. View quote
Desmond Tutu
When we look at a conflict, it is so often rooted in injustice, prejudice, competition for resources, poverty, poor governance and corruption. View quote
Desmond Tutu
WE HAVE NO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT; we are ruled by Englishmen, and the servants of Englishmen, whose object is the interest of another country, whose instrument is corruption, and whose strength is the weakness of Ireland; and these men have the whole of the power and patronage of the country as means to seduce and subdue the honesty and the spirit of her representatives in the legislature. Such an extrinsic power, acting with uniform force in a direction too frequently opposite to the true line of our obvious interests, can be resisted with effect solely by unanimity, decision and spirit in the people; qualities which may be exerted most legally, constitutionally and efficaciously, by that great measure essential to the prosperity and freedom of Ireland, AN EQUAL REPRESENTATION OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN PARLIAMENT. View quote
Theobald Wolfe Tone
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. View quote
H. L. Mencken
All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man. View quote
H. L. Mencken
These are primitive beginnings in art, such as one usually finds in ethnographic collections or at home in one's nursery. Do not laugh, reader! Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved from corruption at an early age. Parallel phenomena are provided by the works of the mentally diseased; neither childish behaviour nor madness are insulting words here, as they commonly are. All this is to be taken very seriously, more seriously than all the public galleries, when it comes to reforming today's art. (Paul Klee)
Eight years ago, no Afghan girls could go to school. Now, a third attend school. Although corruption is rife in the new ruling elite, hundreds of construction projects have finished, with hundreds more under way. More important, perhaps, the vast majority of Afghans think that they're better off under President Hamid Karzai's administration - inefficient, arrogant and possibly corrupt as it may be - than under the murderous rule of Mullah Muhammad Omar. View quote
Amir Taheri
There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true. View quote
Matt Taibbi
Contracting corruption has been around since the construction of the Appian Way. View quote
Matt Taibbi
I hate corruption. (I'm not claiming to be clean. I also stole a lot, but it's all used up. So, it's gone.) ...corruption is really out during my term. View quote
Rodrigo Duterte