Corruption Quotes · Page 34

“when people thought the country was headed in the wrong direction, corruption was their second-biggest concern, after security.3”

— Douglas Grindle

“You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make…

— Walter Lippmann

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

— Dave Ramsey

Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture'…

— Cyril Ramaphosa

I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect.

— Ronald Frame

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

— Leonard Read

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

— Honore de Balzac

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant…

— Jacque Fresco

They have seized upon the government by bribery and corruption. They have made speculation and public robbery a science. They have loaded…

— Denis Kearney

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better…

— Thomas a Kempis

There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and…

— Samuel Johnson

The fight against corruption is not bound to high-profile arrests and high-profile investigations. The fight against corruption is successful if you prevent…

— Ahmed Chalabi

It's very hard to operate on a general philosophy of power. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, but…

— Mark Pellegrino

Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater,…

— Simon Mawer

When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the…

— Rush Limbaugh

“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister…

— Jackson Burnett

The more I've reflected on that and asked Iraqi friends, the more I realize that the corruption in Iraq has nothing to…

— Elliott Colla

“Nevertheless a certain class of dishonesty, dishonesty magnificent in its proportions, and climbing into high places, has become at the same time…

— Anthony Trollope

“Proof then, has retreated in the face of belief. Science, once heralded as the arbiter of truth, has had its facade of…

— Phil Hine

“Am I corrupted if I believe that the people who think alike are more admirable and estimable than those who think for…

— Tom Walsh

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box,…

— Ignatius Donnelly

I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a…

— Francisco Goldman

There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where…

— Douglas Gresham

What I hope is if you turn on the news tonight, I want to find a way to stop all this corruption…

— Charles Bradley

I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that…

— Richard J. Needham

“In some nations day broke after a long night, but it is clouded with chaos and corruption.”

— Vinita Kinra

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself - (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

— Faraaz Kazi

I believed that a husband must necessarily be an angel, impossible of corruption or contamination.

— Victoria Woodhull

The first principle of tackling corruption is that you do not engage in it and you have the will to confront it.

— Ashraf Ghani

A bank is a place that promises you to keep your money safe and then lends it to somebody else in order…

— Vikrant Parsai

Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other…

— David Dudley Field II

“Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.”

— Silvia Hartmann

Studying expands knowledge, knowledge is power, power corrupts, corruption is a crime, crime doesnt pay. Why study?

— Anonymous

If Mohammed bin Salman wants to deal properly with corruption, he must preserve two elements vital to the Saudi economy: trust in…

— Jamal Khashoggi

The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

— Jonathan Swift

Don't engage with corrupt officials under any circumstances. The results are always bad.

— Bill Browder

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

— George Berkeley

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who…

— George Orwell