Corruption Quotes

747 quotes by 574 authors

If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a… — Garry McCarthy
It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy… — Hassan Nasrallah
The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does this present life become to him, because he perceives better and sees more… — Thomas a Kempis
In my more than 60 years as a member of the American scientific community, including service as president of both the National Academy of Sciences… — Frederick Seitz
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry]… — Thomas Jefferson
That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to… — Raymond Chandler
Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption. — Andre Bazin
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
This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be… — Vladimir Putin
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression are far too… — Anna Lindh
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
In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country. — George Orwell
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or… — Thomas Sowell
It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead… — Benjamin Tucker
It's quite nice when you've been generally dissed about your irrelevancy and then suddenly have people coming on bended knee and saying we need you… — Edward Mortimer
Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving… — Claude Adrien Helvetius
The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be… — Daniel Ellsberg
Surely no rational or realistic person will discount the possibility that [during wartime] the United States might suddenly resort to nuclear weapons. Those who retain… — Noam Chomsky
Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for… — Noam Chomsky
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation… — Cesar Chavez

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