Corruption Quotes · Page 36

“When it comes to politicians, the question is not ‘Are they corrupt?’, but rather ‘How corrupt are they?’.”

— Steven Magee

“power corrupts, even when you try not to be corrupted?”

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming…

— James Branch Cabell

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by…

— Mother Teresa

“Criticizing the “corrupt, questionable, and unqualified leaders [placed] into key positions,” the argument rested on the principle of command responsibility: “The international…

— Sarah Chayes

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew…

— Samuel Johnson

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

— Peter Dunne

When you don't take a stand against corruption you tacitly support it.

— Kamal Haasan

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

— Eric Hoffer

Nay, men are so far from musing of their sins, that they disdain this practise, and scoff at it: what say they,…

— Thomas Hooker

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

— Thomas Jefferson

The FDA, NCI and ACS, and the large treatment centres work to eliminate choice of cancer therapies, particulary better ones. They openly…

— Julian Whitaker

Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.

— Barry McCaffrey

“Corruption and leaders who feel they are not accountable to the people who ‘elected’ them to their positions are major issues afflicting…

— Anonymous

Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out…

— Yusuf al-Qaradawi

“There was simply no peace to be had no matter where you hid yourself away. Even in a northern border town of…

— Thomas Ligotti

We did not call it propaganda, for that word, in German hands, had come to be associated with deceit and corruption.

— George Creel

This hand is free of blood, and this hand is free from the stain of corruption.

— Ashraf Ghani

Just being a normal person and having a social life involves a lot of dishonesty for me.

— Ezra Furman

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no…

— Ayn Rand

Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.

— Anonymous

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a…

— Jonathan Swift

People talk about immigration, but they won't talk about the corruption that actually exists between Mexico and the U.S.

— Robert Rodriguez

“The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the…

— Oren Moverman