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Corruption Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- 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…
- There are indeed, in the present corruption of mankind, many incitements to forsake truth: the need of palliating our own faults and the convenience of…
- Every government is perpetually degenerating towards corruption, from which it must be rescued at certain periods by the resuscitation of its first principles, and the…
- A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.
- No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption…
- Credulity is the common failing of inexperienced virtue; and he who is spontaneously suspicious may justly be charged with radical corruption.
- The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
More Corruption Quotes
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police. — Julian Assange
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
- He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his… — Samuel Adams
- Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra
- The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. — Georges Bernanos
- The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless… — Conrad Black
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. — Aesop