Corruption Quote by Robert Payne Download Open image “The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.” — Robert Payne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Corruption Men
He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. — Plato Copy Share Image
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man… — Terence Rattigan Copy Share Image
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Corrupt men are always liars. Lies are their instruments, their pleasure, their solace. In time they come to believe their lies, or rather to… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
“The men of the period of corruption are witty and calumnious; they know that there are yet other ways of murdering than by the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The game of power is played remorselessly by men who have not the slightest knowledge of, or interest in, the way ordinary people live,… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages the king offered protection to his subjects in return for their loyalty, and the subjects were doubly protected, for the… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power.… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
A nation's wealth is too serious a matter to be left to the wealthy. The riches of a nation belong to all, to be… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
For domination has nothing whatsoever to do with good government, and power as an end in itself destroys good government. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's accomplishment is that he permits us to see corruption from the inside. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power. — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
At the heart of the mystery of corruption lies the desire of one man to impose his will on others to the largest possible… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
Corruption appears to be a universal phenomenon that lays its own imperious claims on the world, and therefore it is the duty of all… — Robert Payne 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
