Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Corruption would be invalid, if people publicly expose mantainence toward society. — Saaif Alam Copy Share Image
In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames Copy Share Image
You have to live. I cannot say you cut off your income and become corrupt. — Amarinder Singh Copy Share Image
The risks associated with the lack of transparency is confusion, lack of confidence, lack of credibility, inviting corruption & above all controversy. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA… — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of my early blogging career sort of highlighting all the ills of the government in Kenya and all… — Ory Okolloh Copy Share Image
When corruption is visited upon the cities of men, the mountains and the deserts await him. The cities are for money but… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politicians have been the primary hurdle to reforms, and corruption is the center of the problem. — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
The mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
There's always got to be room for what you might call benign corruption. Nobody blames a man who steals food to feed… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“But now I understand something more fully that I once only understood abstractly. I see how utterly ridiculous it is to think… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Take corruption, right? Take political corruption. Europe, the Anglosphere, northern Europe, has been kind of a miracle zone - and I'm not… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When someone talks about Western films, you probably think of those old black and white cowboy films your granddad likes. But the… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I finish writing the emails and send them. I check that Yulia has access to the banking apps-a fairly pointless exercise because… — Alexei Navalny Copy Share Image
Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
“Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself,… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I don't think Israelis are less critical of corruption than people in Italy, France or America. Israel is special in a different… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
“A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
