Corruption Quotes
747 Corruption quotes by 558 unique authors
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Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.
— Ayn Rand
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To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.
— G. Edward Griffin
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To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek…
— Barack Obama
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I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other…
— Erwin McManus
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What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that…
— Marquis de Sade
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For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at…
— Barack Obama
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Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There…
— Robert Penn Warren
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We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.…
— Gregory Maguire
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The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world
— Aristotle
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What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it…
— Graham Greene
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and…
— Carson McCullers
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India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it,…
— Thrity Umrigar
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How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon,…
— Bryan Davis
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Q.Do you have any positive message, in your opinion? A.Indeed I do think that I do. Q.Such as what? A.The crying, almost screaming, need of…
— Tennessee Williams
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You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and…
— William P. Young
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The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)
— Iain Pears
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It all began, as I have said, when the Boss, sitting in the black Cadillac which sped through the night, said to me (to Me…
— Robert Penn Warren
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When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in…
— Angela Carter
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