Corruption Quotes

747 Corruption quotes by 558 unique authors

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
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to… — Ayn Rand
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. — Algernon Sidney
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. ... The time has come to consider how we might bring… — Jacob Bronowski
Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their… — Edmund Burke
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with… — H. L. Mencken
Great winds and storms help fruit-bearing trees. So also do corruptions and temptations help the fruitfulness of grace and holiness. The storm loosens the earth… — John Owen
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
Something is wrong. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, crime, torture, corruption and the ice capades. If this is the best God can do,… — George Carlin
Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and… — Thomas Jefferson
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out… — Thomas Jefferson

Who Wrote These Corruption Quotes

558 authors contributed a total of 747 Corruption Quotes, led by these top contributors: