Character Quote by T Joseph Benziger

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be…

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

— John Henry Newman

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

— Peter Ustinov

“To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles. The real arena is corrupt…

— Saul Alinsky

Wealth and greed are the roots of all evils.

— Anonymous

The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

— B. W. Powe

Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Corruption requires looking into someone's soul and making judgments about their intent.

— Zephyr Teachout

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a…

— Emma Goldman

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

— Ovid