Corruption Quotes

747 quotes by 574 authors

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. — Kurt Cobain
There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it. — A. K. Antony
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the… — Fiona Apple
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. — Ashleigh Brilliant
The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed — Gordon Clark
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions. — Lewis Mumford
Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today. — Mahatma Gandhi
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection.… — Thomas Secker
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to… — Andrew Jackson
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such… — Colin Powell
The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest… — Mother Teresa
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous… — James Madison
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty,… — Michel de Montaigne
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow… — Emile M. Cioran
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained… — Thomas Paine
The future is in our hands. We are not hapless bystanders. We can influence whether we have a planet of peace, social justice, equity, and… — James Wolfensohn

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