Corruption Quotes

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.

Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

In youth, in middle age, and now after many battles, I find nothing in me but corruption.

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.

People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

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.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Idleness leads to relaxation, sooner or later bringing about ideological and material corruption, accompanied by lack of discipline, anarchy chaos and defeat.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language

If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China].

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail.

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

The winner must promote social jusitce, remove corruption and discrmination, and stand against political, cultural and economic plots.

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

We must fight against negativeness - especially bureaucracy, corruption and wastefulness.

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity. John Wayne

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

When you fight corruption, it fights back.

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

Corruption is a cancer that steals from the poor, eats away at governance and moral fibre and destroys trust.

Because I don't think it's true. I don't think corruption is endemic to the process in Annapolis at all. It's the exception, not the rule.

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist.

That the arts are corrupt does not mean that Christians can abandon them. On the contrary, the corruption of the arts means that Christians dare not abandon them any longer.

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny.