Corruption Quotes

747 Corruption quotes by 558 unique authors

Driven by a wish to save TomÃ¡s from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption — Cassandra Clare
...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. — Baron de Montesquieu
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies,… — Virginia Woolf
...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — T.H. White
I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood". — William Shakespeare
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it. — Frank Herbert
Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these… — Honore de Balzac
Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization. — J M Coetzee
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides? — Friedrich Schiller
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse. — Banksy
All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power. — Clive James
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to… — Emily Carr
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from your earliest years… — Philip Pullman
It is a well-known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out of the argument, the older we grow the more cynical and… — H. Rider Haggard
Every man becomes the image of the God he adores. He whose worship is directed to a dead thing becomes dead. He who loves corruption… — Thomas Merton
Agent Jones switched to the big screen and a grainy video of MoMo sitting at his enormous desk, a swivel-hipped Elvis clock ticking behind his… — Libba Bray
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption. — Upton Sinclair
There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable… — Noam Chomsky
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good… — William Wilberforce

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