Corrupt Quotes

489 quotes by 398 authors

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the… — Jacques Chirac
The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety… — Thomas Jefferson
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
My own view on capital punishment is that it is morally justified, but that the government is often so inept and corrupt that innocent people… — Ed Crane
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by… — Samuel Johnson
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because… — James A. Garfield
Today, the Muslim world is injured and corrupt people who are the enemies of all Muslims are trying to cause disunity in the Islamic world… — Ali Khamenei
The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
Chicago is unique. It is the only completely corrupt city in America. — Charles Edward Merriam
Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to… — Steve Ditko
Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be… — Horace Mann
Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a… — Thomas Jefferson
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint.… — John Jay Chapman
We have, in this country, one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board. This evil… — Louis Thomas McFadden
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if… — Ben Affleck
I don't blame the people for the fact that so many movies are bad. I think there's a corrupt, perverted, lazy and sloppy attitude that's… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt
HeroÂism breaks its heart, and ideÂalÂism its back, on the intranÂsiÂgence of the credÂuÂlous and the mediocre, manipÂuÂlated by the cynÂiÂcal and the corrupt. — Christopher Hitchens
The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal.… — Rupert Everett

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