Corruption Quote by Bertha Knight Landes

There are two things that corrupt a man: money and women. Working to avoid it is great wisdom.

— Vikrant Parsai

There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them…

— Benjamin Constant

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority:…

— Lord Acton

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Corruption is everywhere, man.

— Hugh Masekela

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

— George Bernard Shaw

Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to…

— Robert Payne

In our society, it's been the men who've handled most of the finances, and the women who've stood by and watched men botch things…

— Peter Lynch

If we put corrupt men in public office and sneeringly acquiesce in their corruptions, then we are wrong ourselves.

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is a man's world at the top, at the bottom, and in between. Men are in the catbird seat as far as income,…

— Joyce Brothers

Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Even great men can be corrupted

— J. Edgar Hoover