Corruption Quotes - page 2

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell. (Alan Greenspan)
Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. View quote
Olusegun Obasanjo
Corruption is not a Canadian value! View quote
Stephen Harper
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects. View quote
William Wilberforce
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous. View quote
Tacitus
When a Secretary of State illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see her crime, puts our country at risk, lies about it in every different form and faces no consequence – I know that corruption has reached a level like never before. View quote
Donald Trump
"There is something more mysteriously attractive than beauty: it is corruption.” (Garden of Tortures) View quote
Octave Mirbeau
What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. View quote
Djuna Barnes
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption” is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. (Ben Nicholson)
The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. View quote
Ben Nicholson
To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions. View quote
Bobby Jindal
Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. View quote
John Fletcher
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. View quote
Robert Penn Warren
Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart. View quote
Thomas Moore
Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market. View quote
Ha-Joon Chang
Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature... If the NEXT CENTENNIAL does not find us a great nation... it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces. View quote
James A. Garfield
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible extent. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all nations to prepare themselves against its onslaught by taking proper precautions. (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne)
Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
It is precisely when we help one another that we gain our victories over corruption, but the victory is assured only when we help one another with all our strength. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne