Corruption Quotes

Corruption exists everywhere.

— Mo Ibrahim

Corruption never has been compulsory.

— Anthony Eden

“Your government belongs in jail.”

— Steven Magee

Every government is always growing corrupt.

— Wendell Phillips

It is not power that corrupts but fear.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

“There is no transparency in the police.”

— Steven Magee

“Better to get spine broken than bend it.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt

— Tacitus

“Wherever there is power, greed, and money, there is corruption.”

— Ken Poirot

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

— George Carlin

“Time is money, Money is power, power corrupts eventually”

— B.O.B

The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

— Alexander Pope

Blind obedience to bad leadership is not patriotism, it is reinforcing corruption.

— Anonymous

“I hope that Donald Trumps voters are enjoying drinking President Trump's Koolaid!”

— Steven Magee

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss…

— Fawzia Koofi

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

— Bob Dylan

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

— Samuel Johnson

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.…

— Malcolm Bradbury

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people…

— Alexei Navalny

“The death of those considered expendable to achieve such goals only leaves blood to drown the earth with the memory of corruption…

— Tami Egonu

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and…

— Thomas Paine

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

— John Henry Newman

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more…

— Anonymous

At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded…

— Nikki Sixx

I have a prejudice against people with money. I have known so many, and none have escaped the corruption of power. In…

— Anais Nin

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only...…

— Thomas Jefferson

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

And then they would watch her closely as the dark, coagulated masses took form before her eyes, became flesh and bone, became…

— Philip Sington

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge,…

— John Denham

“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived…

— Nikki Sixx

“Now, I don't believe that a god exists. I think that gods are creation of men, by men, and for men. What…

— Clive Barker

Chastity is the lily of virtues, and makes men almost equal to Angels. Everything is beautiful in accordance with its purity. Now…

— Saint Francis de Sales

In fact, if you read what Kant has to say about feeling, desire and emotion, you see that he is not at…

— Allen W. Wood

“Corruption is usually classified as a humanitarian aid problem, to be handled by donor agencies, not mainstreamed into overall foreign and defense…

— Sarah Chayes

Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no…

— Thomas Jefferson

The tragedy is that in the name of resisting the internal deterioration of faith and the corruption of the world around them,…

— James Davison Hunter

Karzai is Afghanistan's first democratically elected president. He brought the international community into partnership on an unprecedented level, and he championed a…

— Chris Alexander