Corruption Quote by Muhammad Iqbal Download Open image “When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.” — Muhammad Iqbal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Hands People Pure Silver Thinking
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When wealth is earned through dirty means, it may be rejected from being spent on a pure cause. — Mahfuza Al-Hakeem Copy Share Image
“A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold; the gist of the matter is to show silver… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Fighting corruption will only be effective when we attack its real cause: the materialism that distorts our virtues.” — Victor Bello Accioly Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in how corruption works - and it's not necessarily the way one might expect. — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
We have strayed away from God, and He is in quest of us; Like us, He is humble and is a prisoner of desire:… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Sexual self-restraint was only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is not a Church. It is a State conceived as a contractual organism long before Rousseau ever thought of such a thing, and animated by an ethical ideal which regards man not as an earth-rooted creature, defined by this… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share
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 manipulated by a fascist executive system and its annihilative corruption be the incurable epidemics of the disintegration of the environmental, emotional, social, intellectual, physical, professional, occupational, moral and ethical destruction of your homeland. ~ Angelica Hopes,… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share
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 one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share
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