Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 399 authors

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always… — Glenn Beck
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will… — Joseph Addison
When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and… — Bono
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. — Edmund Burke
Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard… — Stokely Carmichael
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair,… — Anton Chekhov
For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own backyards. It is time to… — Nick Clegg
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get… — Jack Abramoff
In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. — Marquis de Sade
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. — Juvenal
O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. — William Shakespeare
Were not the disadvantages of slavery too obvious to stand in need of it, I might enumerate and describe the tedious train of calamities inseparable… — Alexander Hamilton
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. — Tacitus
Memoir is not an act of history, but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt. — Mary Karr
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder… — Colman McCarthy
It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More… — Greg Mortenson
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change… — Alex Steffen
The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large… — Henry Ward Beecher

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