Corruption Quotes

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

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.

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

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.

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.

The downfall of every civilization comes, not from the moral corruption of the common man, but rather from the moral complacency of common men in high places.

All one great big lie.

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

He that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Transparency in government leads to reduced corruption.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

If we tackle corruption, no child would sleep hungry, there would be no injustice, every child would be in school.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

You can not change the past but you can change the future.

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.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

All the problems of the world - child labor, corruption - are symptoms of a spiritual disease: lack of compassion.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional'

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

I was put into office by the people who believed in my idea that corruption is the root of poverty; that an end to corruption would mean an end to poverty.

It's corruption never been systemic, because a fish rots from the head

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.

People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not even our first or second problem, maybe the third

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me.

The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.