Corruption Quote by Francois Rabelais Download Open image “Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.” — Francois Rabelais ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Courtiers Government Men Unhappy
Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong. — Jimmy Savile Copy Share Image
How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is a foolish prince who entrusts the safety of his lands to hired men. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“for men do easily part with their prince upon hopes of bettering their condition, and that hope provokes them to rebel; but most commonly… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on… — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
“And when neither their property nor honour is touched, the majority of men live content, and he has only to contend with the ambition… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction:… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him,… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything… — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
We could form a government of national unity fighting corruption. The ordinary Afghan is sick and tired of it, because it's she or he… — Ashraf Ghani Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
“Don't let cycles of violent crimes, uncontrollable, rising cases of bloody impunity, evil puppets in a crippled judiciary, marionettes in a corrupted legislative system… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of… — Jerome Kerviel Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
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… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Corruption could lead to the collapse of the Party [Communist Party of China] and the downfall of the state [People's Republic of China]. — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice… — Euripides Copy Share Image
I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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