Corruption Quotes - page 3

Sometimes societies die and putrefy long before they are pronounced dead, and sometimes men die of corruption long before they have taken to their deathbeds. (Pierre Stephen Robert Payne)
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself. View quote
Kenneth Tynan
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. View quote
John Henry Newman
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. View quote
Susanne Langer
In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend. View quote
Pauline Hanson
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. View quote
Ashleigh Brilliant
My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government. View quote
Idi Amin
Look, we know we screwed up when we were in the majority. We fell in love with power. We spent way too much money - especially on earmarks. There was too much corruption when we ran this place. We were guilty. And that's why we lost. View quote
Eric Cantor
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Corruption never has been compulsory; when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains. (Robinson Jeffers)
The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
That by 1774 the final crisis of the constitution, brought on by political and social corruption, had been reached was, to most informed colonists, evident; ... View quote
Bernard Bailyn
Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate. View quote
Anaxagoras
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. View quote
Paul
No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it. View quote
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. View quote
James Surowiecki
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. View quote
Cory Booker
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. (Ama Ata Aidoo)
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. View quote
Andre Bazin
Sampling out corruption is a very tough job, but I say so in all seriousness that we would be failing in our duty if we do not tackle this problem seriously and with determination. View quote
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem. View quote
Imran Khan
It's the only condition I know. Bitter Love, Loneliness, contempt for corruption, blind hope. It's where I live. A permanent state of bereavement. This is nothing new. View quote
Gregory Maguire